# Pope Leo XIV draws 800,000 to massive outdoor Mass in central Paris

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- Fox News, 2026-09-26 23:25 UTC
- Culture
- Original: https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-draws-staggering-800000-faithful-heart-paris-massive-outdoor-mass

> Pope Leo XIV celebrated an outdoor Catholic Mass at Paris’s Place de la Concorde before an estimated 800,000 people. He urged French Catholics to share their faith openly in an “increasingly secularized society,” while the choice of venue drew criticism from advocates of France’s strict separation of church and state.

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