Pope Leo XIV visits France on four-day state visit
Pope Leo XIV will make a four-day state visit to France starting Sept. 25, the first official papal state visit there in 18 years, with organizers and the Bishops' Conference of France expecting more than one million attendees. The program includes meetings with President Emmanuel Macron, a UNESCO speech, popemobile routes in Paris and Metz, an open-air Mass at Place de la Concorde, pastoral meetings with migrants and recently baptized Catholics, and a Lourdes stop to meet seven sexual abuse survivors; the church estimates the visit will cost 27 million euros, with 5.5 million raised so far and state support for security.
More than one million people expected at the pope's four-day France visit
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The pope has made several foreign trips this year. The Vatican confirmed a planned November trip to Latin America next.
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