Pope Leo XIV's
Apostolic Visit to France

September 25-28, 2026
Paris • Saint-Denis • Lourdes • Metz

On The Ground Coverage
by Courtney Mares

LOURDES, France (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV led tens of thousands of people in a candlelight rosary procession Sept. 27 in the Marian shrine of Lourdes, saying …

by Gretchen R. Crowe

Announcement made at Mass celebrated by New York bishop Blessed Sheen baptized EL PASO, Ill. (OSV News) — St. Mary Catholic Church in El Paso, Illinois, will become …

by Josephine Peterson

PARIS (CNS) — On the first official papal state visit to France in 18 years, Pope Leo XIV stepped into one of the country’s perpetual underlying tensions: the …

by Kurt Jensen