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Pope Francis delivers his code arsenic helium celebrates Mass connected the juncture of the Christ the King festivity, successful St. Peter's Basilica astatine the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis connected Sunday praised young radical for their efforts to support the Earth’s situation and told them to “be the captious conscience of society.”

Francis celebrated Mass successful St. Peter’s Basilica, filled with hundreds of young faithful, to people a religion time focused connected younker successful dioceses worldwide.

“You person been entrusted with an breathtaking but besides challenging task,'' the pontiff said, ”to basal gangly portion everything astir america seems to beryllium collapsing."

Francis expressed acknowledgment “for each those times erstwhile you cultivate the imagination of fraternity, enactment to heal the wounds of God's creation, combat to guarantee respect for the dignity of the susceptible and dispersed the tone of solidarity and sharing.”

He noted that galore young radical person criticized biology contamination.

“We request this,” Francis said.

The pontiff said that successful a satellite that “thinks lone of contiguous gain, that tends to stifle expansive ideals, you person not mislaid the quality to dream.”

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“Be escaped and authentic, beryllium the captious conscience of society," Francis exhorted young people.

Social justness and attraction of the situation person been cardinal messages of his papacy.

The pope is expected to conscionable with young radical from each implicit the satellite astatine the Catholic church’s jamboree successful Lisbon, Portugal, successful August 2023.

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