"In a meeting on Dec. 15 with youth groups affiliated with Catholic Action, the pope warned that 'a great risk for a boy and a girl today is to spend our days keeping a cell phone screen in front of our eyes.'
'Our eyes are meant to look into the eyes of others. They were not made to look down at a virtual world that we hold in our hands, but to look up to heaven, to God, and to look into the eyes of those who live next to us.'
Pope Francis told the children and teenagers gathered at the Vatican to remember that Jesus teaches that 'every person is important.'
He said that the Lord is particularly concerned not with 'the rich and powerful' or 'those who are on the covers of glossy magazines or on television, but the smallest, the poor, the forgotten, the rejected, those no one cares about.'
'In a world that tends to isolate us, divide us, and that pits us against each other … the secret is precisely to take care of others,' the pope said."
~ Courtney Mares
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