FRANCE 🇫🇷 is having its SOLIDARNOŚĆ moment.
For decades, French Catholicism was presented as finished: old, shrinking, ashamed, destined to disappear.
Then 80,000 young people filled the Stade de France for Leo XIV, hundreds of thousands lined Paris, and around 600,000 gathered for the giant Mass at Concorde and the Champs-Élysées.
At the same time, France baptized more than 13,000 adults in 2026, up 28% in one year.
This is the point.
Visibility. Recognition. Numbers.
Poles in 1979 suddenly looked around and understood: we are not isolated individuals; we are a people.
French Catholics are beginning to experience the same psychological shock.
They were told they were disappearing.
Now they can see each other.
And once a dispersed population discovers that it is still a force, everything changes.
INCROYABLE
There are close to a million people at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to see Pope Leo XIV
These scenes are unbelievable