More than 120,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets to participate in Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evanglization, and to see Pope Leo XIV at the conclusion of the evening Mass as part of the Jubilee of Youth at the Vatican July 29, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) “I will always be close to God, because he is the most important thing in my life.” This is how Joe Wilson, a young Scotsman on the path to sainthood, expressed his profound relationship with the Lord in his personal diary, which since his sudden death at the age of 17 in 2011 has inspired…
