Pope Leo XIV completed a four-day visit to France on 28 September 2026, his first papal visit to the country in 18 years. During the trip, the Chicago-born pontiff addressed sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Lourdes and paid tribute to European integration architect Robert Schuman, drawing an estimated 150,000 pilgrims to a candlelit rosary ceremony.
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Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France, which kicks off on Friday, is something of a homecoming for the Chicago-born pontiff, a grandson of European immigrants with family roots in Normandy. His spiritual roots in French Catholicism run deeper still.
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Pope Leo XIV flies to France today for the Vatican's first state visit to the European nation in 18 years.
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 taking his call to respect the dignity of every human life on the road with a weekend visit to France.
Pope Leo XIV began a four-day state visit to France on Friday, Sept. 25, the first papal state visit there since Benedict XVI traveled in 2008. His itinerary includes meetings with President Emmanuel Macron and UNESCO, prayers at Notre-Dame Cathedral, a youth vigil and a large outdoor Mass in Paris, as well as stops in Lourdes and Metz. The visit is expected to address peace, human dignity, artifi
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.
Trump and Xi Jinping's high-stakes Washington summit was closely watched in Europe, as Pope Leo XIV arrives in France for the first time. Also on the show: an interview with Danish minister Martin Lidegaard on the US-Denmark deal on Greenland and an update on the Ceuta migration crisis.
Police clear bicycles and cordon off streets in Paris ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit and his planned walk through the capital.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday arrives in France for a four-day visit – his fifth Apostolic journey since becoming pontiff last year – during which he hopes to repair the Catholic Church’s standing after sexual abuse scandals while also addressing issues such as the need to regulate AI. FRANCE 24 guides you through his visit.
Pope Leo XIV's visit to France is forcing Emmanuel Macron into a delicate diplomatic balancing act. As both the head of the Catholic Church and the head of the Vatican City State, the pontiff requires the French president to navigate the country's secular traditions carefully. There will be no private meeting between the two leaders — officially because of the Pope's packed schedule — and Macron i
Pope Leo XIV has landed at Paris Orly Airport for the start of his four-day visit to France. A welcoming ceremony was held on the tarmac in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, marking the beginning of a programme combining diplomatic meetings with major public events across Paris, Lourdes and Metz.
President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Pope Leo XIV to the Élysée Palace on Friday, 25 September, at the start of the pontiff's four-day visit to France. The Pope entered the courtyard to a ceremonial welcome, walked the red carpet, shook hands with President Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron, before climbing the palace steps for a brief meeting at the Élysée.
Alison Sargent is pleased to welcome Andrea Antonio Verardi, Professor of Church History and Cultural Heritage at the Pontifical Gregorian University. According to Verardi, Pope Leo’s visit to France is much more than a diplomatic visit. The focus of the visit combines three key issues: the search for peace amid geopolitical instability, the challenge that artificial intelligence and technological
Pope Leo XIV begins historic four-day visit to France with focus on Europe’s future.
The pope has landed in Paris, where he and President Macron will navigate the rules of religious state visits in secular France. Leo's trip will mix pilgrimage and politics on questions of morality and human existence.
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Paris, and was welcomed at the Élysée Palace by French president Emmanuel Macron. They are having closed-door talks on international geopolitics, artificial intelligence and peace. The pontiff is then set to deliver a speech at the Élysée Palace. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago has more.
Watch the replay of Pope Leo XIV's address in french at the Élysée Palace on 25 September, where he spoke about peace, artificial intelligence, France's challenges and the importance of solidarity. The pontiff also condemned gestational surrogacy, calling for greater protection of human dignity during the first day of his four-day visit to France.
Pope Leo XIV urged world leaders in Paris on Sept. 25 not to treat war as inevitable and to pursue dialogue and diplomacy in response to the wars in Iran and Lebanon. He said the suffering in the region should not be met with indifference. The remarks came on the first day of his four-day visit to France [arabtimesonline.com#1][religionnews.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1]. At UNESCO in Paris, Leo al
Pope Leo XIV will on Saturday visit Maison Bakhita, a church-run centre for migrants and other marginalised groups in the north of Paris, bearing a message of charity and acceptance. Part of his four-day state tour of France, the visit comes just months before a presidential election set to be dominated by anti-immigration rhetoric.
Source: NBC News share.google/lB6tbS294ovA... Macron is a real put on. Succeeds where Jabba fails. Miserably for both. Leo is spending four intense days in Paris, the Catholic shrine at Lourdes and the northeastern city of Metz.
The pope has landed in Paris for a four-day trip. Received by President Emmanuel Macron, Leo warned about the risks of AI and criticized France's limited legalization of assisted dying.
Pope Leo XIV has declined a state dinner, the Legion of Honour and a private meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, keeping his four-day France visit centred on its apostolic mission despite official talks at the Élysée. While the Vatican cited scheduling reasons, some observers see a desire to emphasise the trip's spiritual focus, even as the pontiff is set to address European security and peace
PARIS — Pope Leo XIV urged France to embrace dialogue and diversity, in a veiled swipe at populists as he arrived in Paris for a four-day visit. “A truly free society” prevents “authoritarian tendencies” www.politico.eu/article/pope... At the Élysée, the pope defended freedom of conscience without naming the far right, as front-runner Marine Le Pen revives a proposed headscarf ban.
The pope's trip to France: principally a platform to talk about AI, its threats and the need for responsible regulation. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... The pope gives landmark speech on AI development and Europe’s future
Watch the replay of Pope Leo XIV's address at UNESCO on September 25, 2026 where he spoke about peace, culture, AI and international cooperation during the first stop of his France visit.
Speaking at the Elysée, the pontiff set the tone for his first visit to France; dialogue with the Republic, warnings over AI and a call for peace, while acknowledging ongoing disagreements.
Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to France in Paris on Sept. 25, meeting President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace before speaking at UNESCO. He warned that AI could dehumanize and impoverish ideas and relationships, and said new technologies must serve people rather than become instruments of domination [pbs.org#1][theguardian.com#1][euronews.com#2][lemonde.fr#1]. Leo also renewed the Vat
Pope Leo to Press: ‘You Are All Welcome’ www.nytimes.com/video/world/... Speaking on a flight to Paris before his state visit to France, Pope Leo XIV said all journalists were “welcome” to cover him after the Trump administration tried to restrict White House access to cer...
Armed with paper fortune-tellers and pop worship songs, young French Catholics from the Anuncio movement fanned out into the crowds awaiting Pope Leo XIV's arrival in Paris on Friday, hoping to bring strangers closer to God in one of Europe's most secular countries.
At UNESCO in Paris, Pope Leo deplores the crisis of the United Nations Pope Leo XIV used a historic address at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to deliver a pointed warning that the United Nations and other multilateral institutions are in a crisis of effectiveness, with international dialogue at risk of becoming a hollow “charade.” Speaking on Friday, the first day of his four-day visit to France and
After spending two days in Paris, Leo XIV is set to land at Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées airport on Saturday evening. He will then begin his visit to Lourdes with Mass at the Massabielle grotto.
📰 Lourdes: Everything you need to know about Pope Leo XIV's visit After spending two days in Paris, Leo XIV is set to land at Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées airport on Saturday evening. He will then begin his visit to Lourdes with Mass at the Massabielle grotto.... 🔗 https://www. euronews.com/2026/09/26/lourde s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-pope-leo-xivs-visit # World # Europe # News
Pope Leo XIV said on a visit to France on Friday that "authentic secularity" should not exclude religion, in a country where law has for more than a century separated church and state. "An authentic secularity, then, consists not in excluding religion from the public sphere or from education, but in striving to ensure that the state and religious institutions maintain dialogue and join forces in t
PARIS, Sept 26 - Throngs of people were gathering on the famed Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday, ahead of an outdoor Mass with Pope Leo expected to be the biggest event of his weekend visit to France, with more than 600,000 registered to attend.
Mélina Huet is live from Paris.
"Pope Leo has denounced leaders who he said twist the truth and disregard the rule of law. He was speaking at the start of a three-day trip to France" A very heartening read. This forthright pope is very well tuned in to current issues. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe... Pontiff addresses Unesco event, and sounds warning over use of AI as ‘yet another instrument of domination and injustice’
Pope aboard papal plane: ‘I travel to France to proclaim Christ’s peace’ https://www.byteseu.com/2400157/ Aboard the papal flight to Paris beginning his Apostolic Journey to France, Pope Leo XIV highlights the importance for peace in today’s world, apologizes for not having been able to return … Aboard the papal flight to Paris beginning his Apostolic Journey to France, Pope Leo XIV highlights the
🇫🇷 🇻🇦 While #PopeLeo XIV rode down #Paris's iconic Champs-Élysées avenue to hold Mass, he took the opportunity to bless babies from the "popemobile
Father Philip Larrey and Father Michael Baggott are on France 24.
Leo opened his pilgrimage in Lourdes with a prayer at the Grotto of the Apparitions, the site where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 and one of the faith's most-visited shrines.
📰 Pope Leo arrives in Lourdes for Second Leg of France visit after historic Paris crowds Leo opened his pilgrimage in Lourdes with a prayer at the Grotto of the Apparitions, the site where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 and one of the faith's most-visited shrines.... 🔗 https://www. euronews.com/2026/09/26/pope-l eo-arrives-in-lourdes-for-second-leg-of-
Pope Leo XIV Swarmed by Babies on His Way to Historic Mass in France #popeleoxiv #pope youtu.be/KolIX3NBo-I?... via @YouTube YouTube video by New York Post
The BBC's religion editor Aleem Maqbool explains what Pope Leo's visit means for France.
📰 Pope Leo arrives in Lourdes for second leg of France visit after historic Paris crowds Pope Leo opened his pilgrimage in Lourdes with a prayer at the Grotto of the Apparitions, the site where Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 and one of the faith's most-visited shrines.... 🔗 https://www. euronews.com/2026/09/26/pope-l eo-arrives-in-lourdes-for-second-le
Pope Leo waved at believers on his way to mass on Sunday in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes where he is to meet victims of clerical sex abuse on a third day of an official visit to France. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is on a four-day trip to France, a secular country with deep Catholic roots, marking the first official papal visit there in nearly two decades. The first US
The pontiff is due to meet with victims of clerical sex abuse in Lourdes before travelling on to Metz in northeastern France on Monday.
Pope Leo XIV continued his visit to France in Lourdes, at the major Catholic pilgrimage site in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where he celebrated mass before around 150,000 people. Hendro Munstermann, a Vatican correspondent for the Dutch newspaper Nederland Dagblad, joins us from Lourdes to share his impressions and tell us more about the Pope’s visit.
French bishops took "courageous" steps when faced with "the painful scourge of abuse of minors," Pope Leo XIV told the high-ranking clerics before his scheduled meeting with survivors at the Catholic shrine of Lourdes.
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"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." -- Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [
Pope Leo XIV has criticized the legalization of medically assisted death as "false compassion" during his visit to Lourdes, France.
religionnews.com/2026/09/26/p... @clairegiangrave.bsky.social PARIS, France (RNS) — As France sees a surge in adult and youth baptisms, Pope Leo XIV urged the church to welcome new Catholics into parish life and called for reverence in worship without letting li...
Speaking in Lourdes on Sunday morning, the Pope addressed the issue of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, a closely watched aspect of his visit.
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Pope Leo XIV will use the final day of his visit to France on Monday to pay tribute to Robert Schuman – the French foreign minister who was one of the architects of European integration – in a message expected to focus on peace, unity and the principles that shaped post-war Europe.
Thousands of pilgrims filled Lourdes on Sunday evening for a candlelit procession with Pope Leo XIV, as he brought his four-day visit to France to a close.
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France: What you need to know https://www.laviezine.com/1649438/pope-leo-xivs-visit-to-france-what-you-need-to-know/ Motto for the visit: “That the world may have life.” The motto, The Vatican News writes, is a “a call to hope and communion, encouraging people to … Motto for the visit: “That the world may have life.” The motto, The Vatican News writes, is a "a call to hope