Pope Leo XIV Has Arrived in France for a 4-Day Visit
The pope will press peace, human dignity and concern over artificial intelligence as he meets French Catholics and leaders during the visit.
- Pope Leo XIV arrived in France on Friday morning for a four-day pastoral visit, his first papal visit to the country in 18 years, with church bells tolling nationwide and upward of a million people expected to greet him at Paris Orly airport.
- In his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo calls for a pressing duty to remain human amid technology becoming technocracy and the inhumanity of war. For President Emmanuel Macron with seven months left in his term and near-record-low approval ratings, hosting the American pope represents a capstone moment.
- Pope Leo will meet Macron twice Friday—first at the airport then at the Élysée Palace—to discuss climate change, artificial intelligence, and European affairs. His busiest day includes speeches at UNESCO, vespers at Notre-Dame, and a youth vigil at the Paris stadium.
- According to Vatican editorial director Andrea Tornielli, Pope Leo is not coming to condemn France or enter its polarized political debate, but to encourage reflection on what it means to be human today. He brings only the Gospel into the wounds of contemporary history.
- From France, historically the eldest daughter of the Church and birthplace of the Enlightenment, Pope Leo addresses Europe on rediscovering its unity and defending human dignity at every life stage. Olympic-level security deploys 14,000 personnel and 2,500 firefighters across Paris for the visit.
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Pope Leo XIV has arrived in France for a 4-day visit
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in France for a four-day visit, landing at Paris’ Orly airport on Friday morning. He plans to visit Paris, Lourdes, and Metz, focusing on peace and the ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence. Church bells…
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ORLY, France (AP) — Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to France on Friday, hoping to draw attention to his appeals for peace at a time of war, and for greater reflection as artificial intelligence questions the very essence of what it means to be hum...
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The Catholics met in Metz upstream of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Metz trembled with impatience. If there is the excitement of seeing a world-renowned personality, they also expect much from the message of peace of the pontiff.
The Pope Leo XIV will walk in the streets of the capital on Friday, September 25th. He will do the same a few days later in the streets of Metz (Moselle) during the stage that will close his visit to France. The American pontiff will take place on board a jeep with an immaculate white body, offered to his predecessor by Mercedes-Benz. - Visit of Pope Leo XIV: what does the papamobile used for his strolls in Paris and Metz look like? (Topics of s…
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