Pope Urges People to Rediscover their Faith

On Sunday the Pope launched an impassionate condemnation of irresponsible sex and what he described as a “culture of death” that had pervaded the modern world. Urging people to rediscover their faith, the Pope laid aside his prepared sermon and compared the wild excessive culture seen today in the 21st Century to the ancient Roman Empire.

“In our times we need to say 'no' to the largely dominant culture of death,” said the Pope. The sermon was given in the grandeur of the Sistine Chapel, and Pope Benedict said, “(There is) an anti-culture demonstrated by the flight to drugs, by the flight from reality, by illusions, by false happiness ... displayed in sexuality which has become pure pleasure devoid of responsibility...we must say 'No' to it."