Pope Leo celebrates Mass before 800,000 in Paris

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Pope Leo XIV’s procession along Paris’s Champs-Élysées drew enormous crowds, with parents bringing babies and children forward for him to bless. The procession preceded an outdoor Mass attended by about 800,000 people, during the pope’s four-day visit to France.

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