[avenir]

Question: Did the Pope tell these young people to “call on the name of the Lord and be saved”? Did he tell them that the lake of fire is their destiny if they do not?

If he had said that it would have been worth something, instead he tells a bunch of lost people things that mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme (because earth has been in bondage to decay since the Fall and is going to be destroyed by God with fire).

[Armando Guerra]

I previously stated I would hold comment until reading the Pope's full statement. I recommend that you do the same. The context in which the Pope points out the issues with God's creation, as well man ("the apex of God's creation") is very different from what you would get from Al Gore. This is part of his statement and answers your question:

Dear friends, life is not governed by chance; it is not random. Your very existence has been willed by God, blessed and given a purpose (cf. Gen 1:28)! Life is not just a succession of events or experiences, helpful though many of them are. It is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this – in truth, in goodness, and in beauty – that we find happiness and joy. Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

Christ offers more! Indeed he offers everything! Only he who is the Truth can be the Way and hence also the Life. Thus the “way” which the Apostles brought to the ends of the earth is life in Christ. This is the life of the Church. And the entrance to this life, to the Christian way, is Baptism.