"To walk alone in these situations, it's almost as if your life doesn't have an end, the journey doesn't have another side.

"Belen helped me grow in my faith. I got to learn about different religions, but I also really deepened my Catholic faith ...

"Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern and how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel," the pope prays in English.