Pope Leo offers advice to Downey teen

A Downey high school senior was one of young people who got to ask questions to Pope Leo XIV Friday during the National Catholic Youth Conference.

Ezequiel Ponce, a 17-year-old from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, got up on the stage of a packed stadium in Indianapolis to ask Pope Leo’s advice on how to maintain faith when life gets hard.

“There are moments in which a lot of us feel sad or overwhelmed,” Ponce asked the pope. “Friends and family often say just give my problems to the lord. But how can I really give my problems to God and feel that he is close to me, even if I feel like this?”

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