Nowadays, this is the Pope’s comment, "it is not only the personal responsibilities of the adults or young people, which actually do exist, that are questioned, it is also a widespread atmosphere, a mentality and a form of culture that make one doubt the value of the human person, the very meaning of truth and good, ultimately the goodness of life". "It thus becomes difficult" "to hand down through the generations something effective and certain, rules of behaviour, credible goals to build one’s life around". Despite the "strong temptation to give up ", which is widespread amidst "both parents and teachers and the educators in general", according to the Pope, "it is not adults who are to blame" nor "are the new generations to blame". The Holy Father’s message is, despite all this, a hopeful message. "Don’t be afraid! All these difficulties are not insurmountable", he writes to his diocese: "Rather, they are the other side of the coin of that great, precious gift that is our freedom, with the responsibilities which it rightly implies". "Man’s freedom is ever new, and every person and every generation must take their own decisions again and on their own", recalls Benedict XVI, and "even the greatest values of the past cannot be inherited, they must be fully endorsed and renewed through an often painful personal choice".
