Coverage of Pope Leo XIV's pilgrimage in France, including major public events in Paris and Lourdes.
Pope Leo XIV began a four-day visit to France, his first stop after Africa, with plans to meet clerical abuse victims in Lourdes as scrutiny grows over the Church's handling of allegations against priest-artist Marko Rupnik.
Somewhere between 700,000 and 800,000 people turned out for an outdoor Mass spanning the Champs-Élysées and Place de la Concorde, making it the biggest gathering of the pontiff's four-day trip to France, which now moves on to Lourdes and a planned meeting with survivors of clergy abuse.
