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Pope Leo XIV says His Trip to France was Filled with "Almost miracles" - that "defending life" is Applying the Gospel and He's not in Panic Mode Over AI During In-Flight Interview with about 80 Journalists - FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV Holds Private Meeting with President Macron before the Farewell Ceremony and Traveling back to Rome after a Successful Journey to France - VIDEO

Pope Leo XIV at Final Mass in France says "peace, a gift from God, requires a response from human beings through combined effort" FULL TEXT Homily

Pope Leo XIV says "Religions are guardians of life, for they affirm its sacred value" - "to invoke God’s name in order to justify violence or oppression is to profane that name" at Interreligious Meeting

Pope Leo XIV Encourages Return to Faith saying "Christianity taught the equality of all people by nature, as children of the same God, redeemed by the same Christ, without distinction of race, color, class..." Quoting Schuman at Meeting in Metz FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV Prays the Rosary with 50,000 in Procession at Lourdes Holding a Candle and afterwards says "life often marked by trials, yet already filled with the joy of knowing ourselves to be children of God" FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV Meets Abuse Victims Listening to their Stories and Reaffirms Commitment to Prevent the Evil

BREAKING Pope Leo XIV Rejects Abortion and Euthanasia and Warns "No one ever has the right “on the basis of laboratory algorithms, to decide the life of a given embryo or elderly person!" FULL TEXT in France

Pope Leo XIV's Appeal "I invite all the faithful and all Christian communities to pray the holy rosary...with the particular intention that wars may cease and that peace may be established" at the Angelus - FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV with Nearly 200,000 at Mass says "God has made us free, since freedom is necessary for love...We must therefore use our freedom to say yes to Christ" FULL TEXT Homily in Lourdes, France

Pope Leo XIV Tells Bishops “May the rebirth of this admirable church be a prophetic sign of the renewal of the Church..." in France - FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV at Mass with Nearly a Million says "shine forth ever more brightly, by sharing the life, peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ" FULL TEXT Homily + VIDEO in France

Pope Leo XIV Tells New Converts to Catholicism "I see not only the fruits of the Holy Spirit, who set you on this path, but also the promise of fruitfulness for the Church...be missionaries of the Gospel in this society!" FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV Calls Christians to "see those who are invisible, to free those whom today’s economy and culture enslave, and to honor the immeasurable dignity of every brother and sister, in whom Jesus himself comes knocking at our door" FULL TEXT in Paris

Pope Leo XIV Greeted by 80,000 Youth as a Superstar and He Tells them "grow in holiness and improve our society, be radiant witnesses to this Gospel, to the good news that is Christ himself, our Savior" FULL TEXT Prayer Vigil in France

Pope Leo XIV at Notre Dame Cathedral - 300,000 Gather "where heaven and earth meet" and He says "we must not forget that this Cathedral, like every other church, was built for the purpose of prayer and the worship of God...in the Eucharist" FULL TEXT Homily

Pope Leo XIV in Historic UNESCO Speech Urges Greater Respect of Human Dignity which "calls for loving care at every stage of life" FULL TEXT in France

BREAKING News Pope Leo XIV Tells Authorities “the protection of every human life is a duty" - and "Nuclear weapons must be banned" in France - FULL TEXT

Pope Leo XIV says “I, above all, am travelling to France, as to anywhere else in the world...to proclaim peace, the peace of Christ throughout the world" on the Papal Plane