Pope Leo XIV is enjoying a busy weekend with the Jubilee of Youth as the Catholic Church celebrates its Jubilee year. "For me, it is a privilege, a blessing," the pontiff said ahead of the event in Rome on Saturday.

Young people from nearly 150 countries celebrated Mass on Sunday with Pope Leo XIV at the end of the Catholic Church's Jubilee of Youth in Italy. The Vatican said more than a million youth took part in the huge event in a vast open space at Rome's University of Tor Vergata.

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 festive atmosphere reached a peak Saturday ahead of the vigil presided over by Leo,