Overview

• Over one million young Catholics from 146 countries gathered at Tor Vergata on August 3 for the Jubilee’s closing mass, Vatican figures show.
• The Jubilee featured a giant open-air confession at the Circus Maximus where 1,000 priests heard confessions in ten languages under white tents.
• For the first major youth engagement of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV hosted social-media influencer sessions to expand digital evangelization efforts.
• Organizers deployed around 10,000 police and civil protection agents and installed water distribution and misting stations to help pilgrims withstand Rome’s summer heat.
• In his homily, Leo XIV urged youth to be “salt of the earth” and “light of the world,” calling on them to spread peace and hope across the globe.