Young people from 146 countries celebrated with Pope Leo XIV at the concluding Mass of the World Youth Jubilee at Rome's University of Tor Vergata on Sunday. The Vatican put the number of youths attending the event at more than a million,

Rome just wrapped the equivalent of a Catholic Woodstock. Its headline act: The new American Pope. Hundreds of thousands of young people descended on the Eternal City throughout the week for a festival of faith, music and religious services that saw groups ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible” where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons.