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A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

Pope Benedict XVI
Spiritual, Despair, Desert
"Papal Homily at Closing Mass in Sydney: 'May This 23rd World Youth Day Be Experienced as a New Upper Room'". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI given at the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, www.catholic-church.org. July 19, 2008.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.