For US Pilgrims, Jubilee of Youth Confirms Call to Holiness in Everyday Life

Bishop Barron Tells Youth in Rome: Listen to God’s Voice and Accept His Mission

Daniel Ibañez/CNA Bishop Robert Barron delivers the keynote address at the Jubilee of Youth’s National U.S. Pilgrim Gathering on July 30, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. There’s nothing more important in our lives than discerning our mission, Bishop Barron told the crowd.

For US pilgrims, Jubilee of Youth confirms call to holiness in everyday life

ROME (CNS) — It wasn’t difficult to walk the streets of Rome without seeing groups of young Catholics from across the globe singing, laughing and enjoying the Eternal City during the Jubilee of Youth. But for a few hours July 30, the Roman Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls became the meeting point for more than 4,000 people from the United States for the USA National Jubilee Pilgrim Gathering. The gathering was a moment of prayer and fellow…

For US Pilgrims, Jubilee of Youth Confirms Call to Holiness in Everyday Life

Angelica Gatling, 18, and Jonathan Kosinski, 17, members of St. Scholastica Parish in Joliet, Illinois (bottom left), pose for a photo outside the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome July 30, 2025, during the USA National Jubilee Pilgrim Gathering. (Photo: CNS/Junno Arocho Esteves) by Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) — It wasn’t difficult to walk the streets of Rome without seeing groups of young Catholics from across the globe singing…

Bishop Barron to US pilgrims at Jubilee of Youth: ‘Religion at its best is always a summons to adventure’

During a keynote address to US young pilgrims gathered in Rome, Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, exhorted young people to go out on the adventure… The post Bishop Barron to US pilgrims at Jubilee of Youth: ‘Religion at its best is always a summons to adventure’ appeared first on CatholicVote org.

Tens of thousands of Catholics head to Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth

VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered on Tuesday in Rome for the Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth — an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place just over two months after Leo XIV became the head of the Catholic Church and the first American pope. Since Monday, groups of pilgrims —