(29 Jul 2025)
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Vatican City – 29 July 2025
1. Various of young Mexican faithful dancing and singing in front of St. Peter’s Basilica
2. Close up of drum player
3. Young pilgrims with Mexican flag and masks
4. Girls singing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liliana Berna, pilgrim from Mexico City:
”We need to share the Word, and we need to share the faith, we need to share this feeling, and share that it’s a place for everybody. Not only for the people who feel Jesus or God in the prayers and in the silence and in more closed space like… Even in the loud, in the drums, in the song, screaming, feel it, and know that there’s a place for everybody. And through the social media, we can do that.”
6. Pilgrims showing social media account on their phone
7. Wide of pilgrims taking pictures in front of St. Peter’s basilica
8. Various of pilgrims entering Holy Door
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Katrina Schneider, pilgrim from Germany:
”It’s a blessing for me to live my religion with my family and friends and I think it gives me a lot of strength and it helps me to get through life. But I think sometimes it is a bit challenging for me, but I love it.”
10. Pilgrims taking picture in St. Peter’s basilica
11. Various of faithful inside the basilica
12. Girl from group of young faithful showing pictures taken inside St Peter’s Basilica
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simone Toffolo, Italian pilgrim from Treviso:
“The two feelings that have brought a large number of young people from all over the world here is the idea of a world community and that we find ourselves for a single reason, for the faith in which we believe, certainly at different levels, certainly with different questions, but the push that has brought us all here is certainly one (faith).”
14. Various of young pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Thousands of young pilgrims from all over the world descended on Rome en masse on Tuesday to celebrate the weeklong Jubilee of Young People that culminates next weekend with a vigil and Mass in a vast field on Rome’s outskirts.
Filling St. Peter’s square, singing and dancing their faith, they walked through St. Peter’s Basilca Holy Door, a rite of passage of sorts for part of the estimated 32 million people participating in the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year celebrations.
This week, the average age of the pilgrims has skewed noticeably young, with downtown Rome swarming with energetic masses of teenage Catholic scouts, church and Catholic school groups.
The event also gathers priests, nuns and ordinary faithful who use their social media presence to preach and teach the faith, the so-called “digital missionaries”.
“We need to share the word, we need to share the faith, we need to share this feeling” says Liliana Bernal, a young pilgrim from Mexico City, “and through social media we can do that.”
During a mass on Tuesday Pope Leo thanked the young people for using their digital platforms to spread the faith, and he gamely posed for selfies as he was treated to a rock star welcome.
But he warned them about neglecting human relationships in their pursuit of clicks and followers, and cautioned them to not fall prey to fake news and the “frivolity” of online encounters.
For the past two days, the Vatican’s message to the young influencers has been one of thanks for their social media evangelizing, but also a warning to not allow their online posting to go off-message
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