World'Fascinating success': Pope Leo's appeal in France transcends faith and politics

Victor Gaetan, a senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register, says Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France was more than a successful pastoral journey. It offered insight into the intellectual and political character of his early papacy, especially through his broad welcome among people of different faiths and across France’s political spectrum, as well as his intellectual connection to Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum.

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