'There Is Still Hope': Pilgrims From War Zones Gather In Rome

'There Is Still Hope': Pilgrims From War Zones Gather In Rome

Khader Qassis travelled 32 hours from the West Bank, passing military checkpoints across three countries, to join hundreds of thousands of other young Catholics in Rome for a week-long pilgrimage.

Bishop Barron tells youth in Rome: Listen to God’s voice and accept his mission

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. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 31, ... [...]

Bishop at US gathering in Rome: To follow God’s call is a ‘spiritual adventure’

ROME (CNS) — God, not AI, answers the questions that really matter in life, and God has an idea of the saint everyone is meant to be, said two U.S. bishops speaking at a national gathering in Rome. More than 4,000 pilgrims from the United States flocked to St. Paul’s Outside the Walls for the USA National Jubilee Pilgrim Gathering July 30 as part of the Jubilee of Youth taking place July 28-Aug. 3. The evening event, sponsored by the U.S. Confer…

U.S. bishops and youth unite in Rome for jubilee celebration

As hundreds of thousands of young people poured into Rome for the Jubilee of Youth, the United States Conference of