Overview

• More than one million young Catholics attended the closing Mass at Tor Vergata, marking the culmination of the week-long Jubilee of the Youth in Rome.
• In his homily, the Pope commemorated María Cobo and Pascale Rafic, two pilgrims who died during the event, and asked for prayers for Ignacio González, a Spanish youth hospitalized in Rome.
• He urged attendees to seek justice, serve the poor and build a more humane world as central tenets of their faith renewal.
• Organizers managed massive logistics and safety operations with 10,000 security and medical personnel supporting camping, crowd control and emergency aid.
• Pope Leo XIV announced that South Korea will host the next World Youth Day in 2027, extending his outreach to global young Catholics.