With its strong commitment to secularism, France is not an obvious place for Pope Leo XIV to stage an appearance, but his visit is drawing interest from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. After nearly disappearing from France, vultures are making a comeback, but their return has created new tensions with farmers. And France's revolutionary first divorce law from 1792.
Some 800,000 people have signed up to see Pope Leo XIV on his first official visit to France, a secular country where the Catholic faith no longer dominates. Francois Mabille, head of the Geopolitical Observatory of Religion at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, looks at why France is of interest to the Vatican, and young people of different religions talk about what Pope Leo means to them. (Listen @0'00)
