Approximately 2,000 reinforcements will provide security during Pope Francis’ visit to Ajaccio, Corsica, on December 15. Only 35,000 people will be able to witness the “historic” event ...

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AJACCIO, France — Pope Francis completed a one-day trip to Corsica Sunday marked by cheering crowds and good humor in the French Mediterranean island, a stronghold of the Catholic faith.

The Corsica visit was his 47th overseas trip since his 2013 election and the third in 2024. Several of those visits have been around the Mediterranean, from the Greek island of Lesbos to Malta and ...

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 celebrates a mass Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 in Ajaccio, Corsica island, on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica and called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The visit to Corsica’s capital Ajaccio, the ...

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 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 distinguishes the Mediterranean ...

Pope Francis makes 1st papal visit to France's Corsica awash in expressions of popular piety It is the first papal visit ever to the island, which Genoa ceded to France in 1768 and is located ...