WATCH: Pope Francis to the young “get off the couch and change the world!”

Aleteia - published on 07/31/16

Central remarks of the WYD prayer vigil

To change the world you have to get up of the couch. That’s the central message that launched Francis during the final vigil of World Youth Day.

More than a million and a half young people listened to the Pope when evening fell on the Campo della Misericordia, near Krakow.

Here in this video some of the most significant moments of the central delivery that Francis left the boys.

“There are realities that we do not understand why we only see through a screen (mobile phone or computer.)”

Read the pope’s full remarks here.

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