Pope Arrives in Secular France with an Appeal to Respect the Dignity of Every Human Life
The pope will press peace, human dignity and concern over artificial intelligence as he meets French Catholics and leaders during the visit.
- On Friday, Pope Leo XIV's charter flight landed at Paris Orly airport, marking the first papal visit to France in 18 years, with church bells tolling nationwide and upward of a million people anticipated to greet him.
- His encyclical Magnifica humanitas calls for a pressing duty to remain human amid technology becoming technocracy, attacks on human dignity, and war, while President Emmanuel Macron—with seven months left in his term and near-record-low approval ratings—hosts him as a capstone visit.
- During Friday's busiest day, Pope Leo will meet Macron at the airport and Élysée Palace to discuss climate change and artificial intelligence, then deliver speeches at UNESCO, celebrate vespers at Notre-Dame, and preside over 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 human dignity by bringing only the Gospel into contemporary wounds.
- From France, historically the eldest daughter of the Church and birthplace of the Enlightenment, Pope Leo addresses Europe on rediscovering unity and defending human dignity, with Olympic-level security deploying 14,000 personnel and 2,500 firefighters across Paris.
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Pope Leo XIV is expected today in France. After arriving at the airport of Orly, the religious leader is expected at the Elysée, before celebrating the Vespers at Notre-Dame-de-Paris and making a vigil at the Stade de France, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Follow our direct.
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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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Pope arrives in secular France with an appeal to respect the dignity of every human life
ORLY, France (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has arrived in France for a four-day visit. Leo’s charter flight landed at Paris’ Orly airport on Friday morning. He is spending four intense days in Paris, the Catholic shrine at Lourdes and the northeastern city of Metz. He’s 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 human. THIS IS A…
The sovereign pontiff arrives in France this Friday. Until Monday, he will visit several emblematic places, first in Paris this Friday, then in Lourdes and Metz Here are the main stages, with
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