{"id":1090806,"date":"2021-12-06T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090806"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:59:00","slug":"pope-francis-warns-youth-not-to-be-prisoners-of-their-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-warns-youth-not-to-be-prisoners-of-their-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Warns Youth Not to Be \u2018Prisoners\u2019 of Their Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-warns-youth-not-to-be-prisoners-of-their-cell-phones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis urged young people Monday to take some time away from cell phones and social media to get out and meet other people in person.<\/p>\n<p>On the final day of his visit to Cyprus and Greece before returning to Rome, the pope met with youth at the St. Dionysius School in Athens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/speeches\/2021\/december\/documents\/20211206-grecia-giovani.html\">exhorting<\/a> them not to \u201csettle for posting a few posts or tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t settle for virtual encounters, look for real ones, especially with those who need you,\u201d the pontiff told them, while encouraging them not to waste time looking for \u201cvisibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is original, revolutionary,\u201d he declared. \u201cTo go out of yourself to meet the other. But if you live as a prisoner in yourself, you will never meet the other, you will never know what it is to serve. Serving is the most beautiful, greatest gesture a person can make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human beings need real, interpersonal contact, the pope insisted, that cannot be achieved virtually.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19019994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236702828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19019994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236702828-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A woman takes a selfie photo with her smartphone as Pope Francis (Rear C) arrives to celebrate a mass as part of World Youth Day on November 21, 2021 at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in The Vatican. (VINCENZO PINTO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMany today are very into social media but not very sociable,\u201d he asserted. \u201cClosed in on themselves, they are prisoners of the cell phone they hold in their hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the screen the other is missing,\u201d he continued. \u201cHis eyes, his breath, his hands are missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe screen easily becomes a mirror, where you think you are facing the world, but in reality you are alone, in a virtual world full of appearances, of photos made up to always look beautiful and fit,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow nice it is to be with others, to discover the newness of the other! To talk with each other, cultivate the mystique of the whole, the joy of sharing, the ardor of serving!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the pope wrapped up his six-day journey to Cyprus and Greece, where he repeatedly urged leaders to be welcoming to migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after his meeting with young people, Francis was taken to the airport where he boarded his ITA Airways flight back to Rome, the pontiff\u2019s first voyage with the newly constituted Italian airline.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis urged young people Monday to take some time away from cell phones and social media to get out and meet other people in person. 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