Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025, Vatican
Twenty-five years after World Youth Day 2000, the world watched as another pope came to meet the youth of the church, again at Tor Vergata. Leo XIV, just a few months into his pontificate, stepped onto the world stage on a summer evening in 2025.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
After beginning the vigil with prayers, the pope engaged in a dialogue with several young people who asked him three questions.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Addressing an estimated 1 million young people, Pope Leo XIV urged them to forge genuine relationships rooted in Christ rather than ephemeral online connections that can reduce individuals to a commodity.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Volunteers watching over the relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati gently placed items from the faithful on top of his casket to make a third-class relic for the visitors to the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, near Rome’s Pantheon, one afternoon during the Jubilee of Youth.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Along one of Rome’s busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Rome’s historic Risorgimento Square, built in the 19th century in honor of the unification of Italy, has always been a gateway to Vatican City with countless pilgrims, tourists, and locals passing through it on their way to St. Peter’s Basilica.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
The enthusiastic joy of young people, who love Jesus and want all wars to stop, will be heard to the ends of the earth, Pope Leo XIV said, welcoming tens of thousands of cheering young men and women to Rome for their Jubilee.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Greeting tens of thousands of visitors crowded in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV welcomed all the young people who arrived in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, social media, World News, Youth Ministry
More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive July 28 for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, which will include a special Jubilee dedicated to Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.
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Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Jubilee 2025, News, World News
The Jubilee Year — proclaimed by Pope Francis under the theme “Pilgrims of Hope” — officially opened Dec. 24, 2024, and will continue through Jan. 6, 2026. Rome remains its ceremonial heart, but Malta offers something distinct: a pilgrimage experience rooted in local tradition and marked by contemplative encounters.
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