"How can it be that there is public silence with regard to the first and essential reality of human life?"

The Roman Pontiff's homily at Santiago de Compostela is here.

... From this place, as a messenger of the Gospel sealed by the blood of Peter and James, I raise my eyes to the Europe that came in pilgrimage to Compostela. What are its great needs, fears and hopes? What is the specific and fundamental contribution of the Church to that Europe which for half a century has been moving towards new forms and projects? Her contribution is centred on a simple and decisive reality: God exists and he has given us life. He alone is absolute, faithful and unfailing love, that infinite goal that is glimpsed behind the good, the true and the beautiful things of this world, admirable indeed, but insufficient for the human heart. Saint Teresa of Jesus understood this when she wrote: “God alone suffices”.....

"Ego Iesus misi angelum meum testificari vobis haec super ecclesiis. Ego sum radix et genus David, stella splendida matutina”. Et Spiritus et sponsa dicunt: “Veni!”. Et, qui audit, dicat: “Veni!". Et, qui sitit, veniat; qui vult, accipiat aquam vitae gratis.