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Pope urges young people in Australia to spurn the "spiritual desert" offered by modern society By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia July 19, 2008 (AP) Pope Benedict XVI, right, conducts a Holy Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia,... (AP Photo/Will Burgess, Pool) Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world and to embrace Christianity to build a new age free from greed and materialism. At a Mass before more than 200,000 young Roman Catholic pilgrims in Sydney, Benedict said "the world needs renewal" and challenged them to be the agents of change. "In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of... [read full story]
