Vatican City — Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading up to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anaesthetise their idealism. Francis spoke a day after hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters answered a call to action from survivors of February’s Florida high school massacre and rallied across the US to demand tighter gun laws. He did not mention the demonstrations. Catholic News Service (CNS) said Gabriella Zuniga, 16, and her sister Valentina, 15, both students from Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed in February, attended the service with their parents. CNS posted a photo of the two holding up signs in St Peter’s Square, with one reading, "Protect Our Children, Not Our Guns". The 81-year-old Francis led a long and solemn Palm Sunday service before tens of thousands in the square, many of them young people there for the Catholic Church’s...
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