Asked about some of the biggest challenges facing the Church to-day, Canada’s newest Cardinal, Archbishop Frank Leo of Toronto listed secularism and political polarisation, as well as what the Pope calls ‘throwaway culture’.
The Church’s res-ponse to the problems, Cardinal Leo said, must “start from the human heart”, and our rela-tionship with God: we need a “spiritual awake-ning”, one that inspires us to “bring the newness of life, of God, into the world today.”
The Cardinal added that, in today’s context, “special attention” to pastoral care of families and of young people is of “primordial” import-ance. “It’s not easy being a young person today”, he said: “there are lots of temptations, lots of confusion, lots of anxiety and fear.”
In the face of these struggles the Cardinal said, the Church must “be a guide”, but also a listener – “we need to listen with the heart, listen to what [young people] are saying and why.”
(Vatican News)

• H.E. Cardinal Frank Leo
  Archbishop of Toronto