They need to be "capable of caring and tenderness—I am thinking of bullying here—free from widespread fallacies" that claim the only way to be worth anything is "to be competitive, aggressive and tough toward others

Pope Francis also prayed for the victims of the attacks on Sunday.

“Let’s not extinguish the hope in their hearts; let's not suffocate their hopes for peace,” the pope said of refugees.

The photo shows a young boy, about 10 years old, carrying his dead little brother on his back.

In his homily on New Year’s eve,, the pope said God gave to us a “whole and sound” year, but “we humans in so many ways ruined and hurt it.”

At Vatican II, the pope said, the church recognized its responsibility to “proclaim the Gospel in a new way.”