Pope Leo XIV leaves at the end of a Mass with young people participating in the Youths Jubilee on Sunday at the Tor Vergata field in Rome. AP

ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible" where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons.

In his closing blessing for the Jubilee of Youth , Leo remembered the young people of Gaza and Ukraine and other countries at war who could not join their celebration.

“We are closer than ever to young people who suffer the most serious evils, which are caused by other human beings,” Leo said. “We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine, with

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