Pope Francis urges young people to ‘shout,’ ‘make noise,’ eat less meat to help save the planet

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged young people to generate new social and political ideas, “make noise” to be heard, and eat less meat to “help save the environment” in a July 6 letter addressed to the participants in the European Union’s 2022 Youth Conference. “I would like to tell you something that is very close to my heart,” the Holy Father wrote in the beginning of the letter, in which he invited young Europeans to “transform the ‘old continent’ into a ‘new continent.’”-- More...