Pope Leo XIV Set for Four-Day Visit to France
The pope is expected to press France on AI regulation, migration and church abuse cases during a four-day visit that includes a mass with 80,000 young believers.
- Pope Leo XIV arrives in France on Friday for the Vatican's first state visit in 18 years, where the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics will meet President Emmanuel Macron before addressing artificial intelligence at UNESCO.
- France remains a deeply secular country where only 5% of its 69 million residents attend Catholic church regularly, with the nation having enshrined abortion rights in its constitution.
- Leo will inspect Notre Dame renovations on Friday afternoon before attending a ceremony in Saint-Denis with 80,000 young believers, followed by a giant mass on Saturday at the Place de la Concorde.
- Addressing clerical abuse, the pontiff will speak privately on Sunday in Lourdes with seven victims, following a 2021 inquiry that found Church members had abused about 330,000 minors in France over 70 years.
- Concluding his trip on Monday in Metz, Leo will deliver a speech regarding peace in Europe as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues into its fifth year.
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Pope Leo arrives in France for visit spanning faith and politics
From migration to artificial intelligence, clerical abuse and war in Europe, Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to France this weekend will touch on some of the biggest challenges facing the Catholic Church and French society alike.
For the first time in eighteen years, a Pope travels to Paris again for an apostolic visit. Leo XIV meets a country that has become more secular and at the same time more religiously diverse. Only Emmanuel Macron plays – inadvertently – a supporting role this time.
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Political tensions around immigration and Islam, coupled with issues such as the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution or euthanasia, add political interest to the visit
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