Overview

• About 1,400 LGBT+ Catholics and relatives from roughly 20 countries joined the Rome gathering organized by Italy’s La Tenda di Gionata.
• Participants attended a morning Mass led by the Italian bishops’ conference vice-president at the Chiesa del Gesù and are set to pass through St. Peter’s Holy Door this afternoon.
• No private audience with Pope Léon XIV is scheduled, yet this is the first time such a pilgrimage appears on the Jubilee’s official program.
• Pilgrims describe the event as a step toward belonging while noting ongoing barriers to sacraments and urge training for educators, seminarians, priests and bishops.
• The moment follows Pope Francis’s pastoral gestures, including 2023 blessings for same-sex couples that drew conservative resistance, with his successor’s stance still unclear.