"Do all you can to build, alongside your peers, a fairer and more fraternal society, by carrying out your duties, respecting the laws and never letting yourselves be carried away by violence". This is the appeal made by the Pope to the young migrants on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. "Many young people said the Pope after yesterday’s Angelus , for some reason or other, are driven to live far from their families and from their countries. Girls and children are particularly at risk. Some children and young people were born and raised in refugee camps: they too are entitled to have a future!" Hence the Holy Father’s praise "for all those who work for young male and female migrants, for their families and to help them fit in at work and school", and his invitation "to friendlily welcome these children and young people with their parents, while trying to understand their stories and helping them to fit in". Before the Angelus as well as in the morning, when he baptised 13 children in the Sistine Chapel , Benedict XVI spoke of Jesus’ Baptism, with which "Jesus began to take over the weight of the sin of the whole of mankind, which He accomplished on to the Cross. All of Christ’s mission concluded the Pontiff can be summed up as follows: to baptise us in the Holy Spirit, to free us of the slavery of death", towards "the true, full life".
