Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor

“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before the Concorde, the pope sat with migrants at Maison Bakhita and told France’s catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.

Pope Leo XIV blesses a young girl with disabilities lifted up to the popemobile on the Champs-Élysées before Mass at the Place de la Concorde in Paris on Sept. 26, 2026. The popemobile stopped repeatedly along the two-kilometer route so the pope could bless children and people with disabilities. (Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images)

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