“Young man, I say to you, arise!”

With these words from Luke’s Gospel, with which Jesus restored the widow’s son to life, Pope Francis sets a resolutely Christocentric theme for perhaps the most heartfelt and personal intervention of his papacy so far.

Christus Vivit (Christ is Alive!), his Apostolic Exhortation addressed “to Young People and the Entire People of God” is the work of a Pope who shows profound concern for the dramatic and unsettling environment in which young people find themselves.