The 2025 Jubilee in Rome is examined within a broader interdisciplinary research project that approaches the event as a "total social fact" (Mauss, 1925), involving multiple forms of participation, religious practice and collective experience. Within this framework, this paper explores how Italian young women and men (18-35) reflect on and negotiate gender roles in relation to Catholic belonging and everyday life. Recent research highlights a dynamic relationship between gender attitudes and religious identification. More egalitarian gender attitudes are often associated with declining religiosity; however, among young women religiosity continues to shape gender roles more strongly than among men (McElroy et al., 2025). This raises a key sociological question: how do young Catholic women and men negotiate the tension between religious belonging and changing gender expectations? Within the Italian context, the relationship between gender and religion has received comparatively limited attention in sociological research as Palmisano (2024) notes. The present study therefore investigates these dynamics within the specific context of the 2025 Jubilee. This paper adopts a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative and quantitative data collected within the Jubilee research project. The qualitative component is based on semi-structured interviews with young participants from Northern, Central and Southern Italy and the Islands. The quantitative component draws on a survey administered during the research, with 1,508 respondents. Through thematic analysis conducted with NVivo and the exploration of survey data, the study investigates how young women and men narrate their roles within family life, community participation and the Catholic Church; how they interpret gender roles and relations between women and men and how young adults negotiate the tension between personal faith, institutional belonging and contemporary gender expectations across different Italian regions.