Leftists and Muslims fret over France's Catholic revival: 'My reflex is to recoil'

Leftists and Muslims fret over France’s Catholic revival: ‘My reflex is to recoil’


During his Wednesday address in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV reflected on his recent four-day apostolic visit to France, noting that there is an unmistakable “renewal” underway in the formerly majority-Catholic nation.

While some Catholics are excited over the prospect that the same country that waded into the modern age through the blood of Catholic clerics and lay people might now be returning to the faith, radical leftists and a Muslim activist group are alternatively panicking.

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‘Rebirth’

The Roman pontiff claimed in his address on Wednesday that the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris “can symbolically shed light on this entire Apostolic Journey, offering a perspective that I would summarize in one word: rebirth.”

The cathedral, which was

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