Pope Leo XIV points out the urgent challenge of the relationship between “mental health and digital technologies”

Pope Leo XIV points out the urgent challenge of the relationship between "mental health and digital technologies"

Pope Leo XIV pointed out that one of the most urgent and decisive challenges of our time is “the relationship between education, mental health, and digital technologies,” when receiving this Saturday at the Vatican the attendees of the seminar on this topic organized between the Organization of Ibero-American States, the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and the Dicastery for Culture.

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In his speech, the Pope emphasized that “many young people possess increasingly sophisticated technological tools, but they struggle to find a meaning for living, hoping, loving, and even suffering.”

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And he invited to respond to the questions that arise “behind so many difficulties, loneliness, and psychological fragilities (…) Does my life have any meaning? Is there a reliable hope for the future?.”

He also lamented that “many young people today live under the yoke of expectations and performance, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.”

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He also urged addressing the issue of mental health not only as a clinical or technical matter but also working to “cultivate the inner life.”

In fact, it is not enough to connect young people to digital networks if they then remain disconnected from themselves, from others, and from their own interiority. Cultivating the inner life means helping new generations rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence,” he explained.

He added that “technology connects us, but education forms us” and “to educate means to accompany young people to discover not only how to live but also why to live.”

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