After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by France’s President Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival at Orly airport on the outskirts of Paris on Friday.
Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France
Scritto il 25/09/2026