Hope amid despair

More than a million young people attended the closing Mass of the Jubilee dedicated to them in Tor Vergata, in the suburbs of Rome. “We are closer than ever to young people who suffer the gravest evils, caused by other human beings. We are with the young people of Gaza, we are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war,” Pope Leo XIV said during the Angelus in English, AGI reported. “You are the sign that a different world is possible: a world of brotherhood and friendship, where conflicts are resolved not with weapons but with dialogue.”