Pope Leo XIV appears to rebuke French secularism in Macron’s presence

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Leo XIV had specific things to say to the French and their president, in the name of "the unique and irreplaceable value of every human being" which he witnessed in his mission as pope.

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"Just secularism does not mean excluding religion from public space," Pope Leo XIV said on Friday in his first speech to the French authorities at the Elysée.

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Shortly after his arrival in Paris, Friday, September 25, the pontiff delivered a speech in French at the Élysée. In a context of weakening international law and polarization, in France especially seven months before the presidential elections, he pleaded in favor of a just secularism.