Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France, which kicks off on Friday, is something of a homecoming for the Chicago-born pontiff, a grandson of European immigrants with family roots in Normandy. His spiritual roots in French Catholicism run deeper still.
The first American pope arrives in Paris on Friday for the start of a four-day trip to France that will feature popemobile parades, an open-air Mass on the Champs-Élysées and a visit to the Sanctuary of Lourdes.
