After decades of decline and rising numbers of non-believers, the Church in France appears to be reviving, with baptisms of adults and teenagers hitting record levels this year in France, up 20 per cent over 2025.
The strength of the Catholic Church, which remains the largest religion in France, was on full display on Saturday, as an estimated 800,000 faithful flocked to the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde in central Paris for an outdoor mass led by Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo Holds Mass with 800,000 People in Paris at Site of French Revolution Guillotine Terror Beheadings
Here we are in Paris in a hotel just a few blocks away. But, no traffic & streets open to walk on; an air of festivity. Platoons of priests on the sidewalks giving confessions (!). wild. https://t.co/Ji37Ll3zUA
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) September 26, 2026
Pope Leo Attacks the Root of Left-Wing Radicalism
Honors the Christian Martyrs of France’s Left-Wing Reign of Terror…
By his quiet actions, Pope Leo is striking at the root of the revolutionary left, undercutting their legitimacy by reminding the rest of us that they are, if they gain the power, murderous.
Hundreds of thousands of Catholics poured into Paris on Saturday as Pope Leo XIV held Mass in the city centre, spreading a message of religious revival amid modern secularism stemming from the French Revolution and calling on the faithful to “bring hope wherever discouragement and spiritual dryness prevail.”
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