Pope tells youth: Go, the Church needs you

Pope Francis on July 28 challenged the youth to spread the Catholic faith even to the “most indifferent,” as he emphasized his call for a missionary Church that goes out to humanity’s “outskirts.” In the concluding Mass for World Youth Day, Francis said the 3 million delegates who trooped to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil should share with others “the wonderful experience of meeting Jesus.” The Pope said the experience “must not remain locked up in your life or in the small group of your parish, your movement, or your community.” By making this challenge, Francis involved the youth in a key theme of his papacy: promoting a missionary Church that goes out “to the ‘outskirts’ where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.”

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