[piusv]

You're both wrong. Francis didn't say these were the biggest "problems" in the world. He said:

The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.

That's right. The most serious of the evils.

Unbelievable.

[annalex]

The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.

These are social consequences of sin. Right on. And abortion, homosexuality, left wing economics are consequences of idleness of the youth and fear of old age.

[sitetest]

Dear piusv,

You really need to get with the program! “Problem,” “evil,” what's the difference? After all, the pope's spokesman has told us to use the “’new hermeneutic,’ one in which we don’t attach value so much to individual words as to the overall sense.”

Don't be so fussy over one little word!

Of course, if we were still taking the meanings of words seriously, you would be right. And, with either “problem” or “evil,” the assertion (devoid of any supporting arguments) that these are the two greatest problems or two greatest evils in the world, would be silly talk, if we were still taking the meanings of words seriously.

sitetest