Pope Francis is urging young people to lead the church’s future even as he voices doubts about whether he’ll be around much longer to see it.

The 80-year-old pope referred to his own mortality twice in the span of a few minutes Saturday during a service to rally young people to attend the Catholic Church’s big youth festival, World Youth Day, to be held in Panama in 2019. He said: “I don’t know if it will be me, but the pope will be in Panama!”

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