Pope Francis, March 2014
"This is horrible...Harry, listen to me.
No one's coming. You're dying, both of you." Do you have a ... saving people thing? Do you know the facts, understand that it's the government's problem, know that a parent should just be left to discipline their own child, but still try to interfere because you just can't repress the instant gratification of helping? Saving the day? What's the difference between showing you care and showing off? Did you know there is a world where no one gets sick? Or dies? Where nobody wants to kill anyone, no one is danger, not a single person is hungry or lonely or having a bad day?
God loves you so much He created a Wonderland for you. Of carousels and face painting and cotton candy and love. Of stress-free bliss where there’s never anything to do and everyone trusts and nobody doubts. No one makes bad decisions. No one hurts anybody. We are all of one heart, and one body, and one God, love reigning free under the Father of Lights. I work with a generation that waited up till midnight on their 11th birthday for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. This is Generation Change. Millions of young people with a desperate ache to make a difference, not just a career, to be interconnected, to live differently. They're magical, I tell you. Pure magic. They carry the weight of everything on their shoulders, everything the world has ever done and all the terror of potential we have of what the world could be. Global warming, terrorism, globalization, social media, nuclear warfare - it's all on them. They feel it. You can see it in their sometimes-panic and you can feel it in their occasional, deep-seething joy. Their incredible happiness, when it bubbles to the surface, is real, and so is their separateness. They are very much set apart, and they know it. Which is why they're just waiting for someone to tell them, You're a wizard, Harry.
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