AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking during a one-day visit to Corsica, the first by a pontiff to the French ...

People walk past a mural featuring Pope Francis prior to the Pope’s visit, in Ajaccio, in the southern French island of Corsica, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) ...

Pope Francis boards an airplane at Rome's Fiumicino airport as he leaves for his one-day visit to Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica, on Dec.15.

Pope Francis presides over Holy Mass on Gaudete Sunday on the island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (photo: Daniel Ibáñez / EWTN News) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican December 15, 2024 ...

Francis made him a cardinal, the highest rank in the Church below pope, in 2023. The Vatican estimates that 81.5% of Corsica's population of 356,000 is Catholic.

OP-ED. Theologian François Euvé explains why Pope Francis has chosen to visit Ajaccio (Corsica) on Sunday for a symposium on popular religion, rather than Paris for the reopening of Notre-Dame.

Pope Francis will visit Corsica on Dec. 15, the Vatican said on Saturday, the first recorded trip of a pope to the French Mediterranean island.

Pope Francis stands as he celebrates a mass Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 in Ajaccio on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica . Credit: AP/Thibault Camus ...

Pope Francis delivers the Angelus prayer inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Ajaccio on the occasion of his one-day visit in the French island of Corsica, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 ...