Manila, Aug. 20 -- A prelate on Wednesday urged families, particularly parents and grandparents, to raise young people with compassion in the wake of Tuesday's fatal shooting incident inside a school in Zamboanga City.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle also called on them to reflect on how values are formed at home.

"For grandparents and parents, please show children a heart that is humane," Tagle said in his homily during a Mass at the Parish Church of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.

The cardinal noted how families can be physically together but emotionally distant when attention is fixed on electronic gadgets instead of each other.

He added that video games and artificial intelligence (AI) s...