Pope Leo XIV is visiting France from Sept. 25–28. Follow here for live updates of his trip.

Pope Leo XIV visited the Maison Bakhita Center and celebrated an open-air Mass at Place de la Concorde in Paris before concluding his day at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes.

The combined parish of St. Mary in El Paso, Illinois, and St. John in Benson, Illinois, will be the first parish in the world to be named after the new blessed.

Among the throngs of pilgrims in Lourdes this weekend will be a 27-year-old woman who be there with a group of Cistercian nuns, hoping the visit will confirm her call to contemplative life.

An estimated 800,000 people attended the pontiff’s open-air Mass.

“The lifeblood of the Knights is young men,” said Joseph McInerney, who noted that men under 35 are currently the fraternal organization’s fastest-growing membership segment.

Leo met members of a Church assembly examining a decade-long rise in Catholic baptisms.

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An incomplete manuscript of “The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Christ” has been reconnected with several long-lost pages thanks to work by two English researchers.

Leo visited a center offering support and integration to immigrants in the Archdiocese of Paris, on the second day of his Sept. 25-28 journey in France.