800,000 IN PARIS: A Mass Where th...
800,000 IN PARIS: A Mass Where the Guillotine Stood
647withchuckfrank por Chuck Frank
T2 · E353
28 sept 2026
27:51
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France is one of the most secular countries on earth, and on Saturday Paris came to church. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, celebrated an open-air Mass at the Place de la Concorde with the crowd stretching the length of the Champs-Élysées. The Vatican estimated 800,000 people, about 200,000 more than had registered, per Fox News and the Associated Press. Families held babies up to the popemobile as he passed. And think about where they stood: the Place de la Concorde is where the French Revolution guillotined Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and 1,119 others, the revolution that tried to erase the faith from France. The Pope told the young people, "You are the Church today. How wonderful it is to see your enthusiasm." He went on to Lourdes and spoke against what he called trends that seek to redefine the value of human life. The experts keep te ... 

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