Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France

Scritto il 25/09/2026
da Motoko Rich and Mark Landler

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 boarding a flight to Paris, at Rome’s international airport in Fiumicino, Italy, on Friday morning.