Pope Leo XIV leads a mass in Rome neighbourhood as part of Jubilee of Youth

Pope Leo XIV presided over a final mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world.

The week-long "Jubilee of Youth” was an enormous undertaking for the Vatican, with a half a million young pilgrims in Rome for most of the week. On Saturday night, before a twilight vigil led by the pope, organizers said there were 800,000 people in the open-air space on Rome's eastern outskirts, and on Sunday the Vatican said that number had grown to one million.