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🔴 Live: Pope Leo leads Mass at Metz Cathedral on final leg of visit to France
Pope Leo urged Europe to remember its Christian history in a speech delivered in Metz, the hometown of Robert Schuman, a founding father of the European Union, during his four-day visit to France. Speaking in French, he urged Europeans to recall the founding values of the EU, including the r
What the coverage shows
The coverage converges on Pope Leo XIV’s Metz stop as the wrap-up of his France visit and on his remarks about European unity, with France 24 and AP both framing the speech around the EU and its founding ideas. France 24 alone foregrounds war, migration and the pope’s warning about uncivilised relations, while AP’s extracts stay with live coverage of the speech and Mass. CBS News’ items are separate from the Metz speech and instead focus on the France visit generally and on the crowd at Mass.
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