JPII’s encyclicals were the voice of an angel. Seems we have the same with Benedict.

http://www.ratzinger.it/miscellanea/memory.htm

...in a generation whose past has been poisoned by a particular program of liberation that has stifled hope?

When we read of the pessimism with which our young people look toward the future, we ask ourselves, Why?

Is it that, in the midst of material affluence, they have no memory of human goodness that would allow them to hope?