Pope Leo XIV makes historic visit to glitzy Monaco
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- The article reports on Pope Leo XIV's historic visit to Monaco, highlighting its role as a small state with global influence and its Catholic traditions. It discusses the visit's symbolic significance, Monaco's environmental initiatives, and the Pope's focus on peace and dialogue.
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“Pope Leo XIV makes historic visit to glitzy Monaco”
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“Pope Leo XIV will travel on Saturday to the principality of Monaco, becoming the first pontiff in almost five centuries to visit the Mediterranean enclave”
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“Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said the visit would provide the American pope with his first real chance to speak to all of Europe”
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“Monaco is also one of the few European countries where Catholicism is the official state religion”
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“Prince Albert recently refused a proposal to legalise abortion, citing the important role Catholicism plays in Monaco society”
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“The decision was largely symbolic, since abortion is a constitutional right in France”
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“Albert joined other European Catholic royals who have taken a similar stand over the years to uphold Catholic doctrine on an increasingly secular continent”
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“When Pope Francis visited Belgium in 2024, he announced he was putting the late King Baudouin on the path to possible sainthood because he abdicated for a day in 1990 rather than approve legislation to legalise abortion”
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“Bruni said the 'defence of life' would be one of the themes of Leo’s one-day visit Saturday”
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“The visit includes a private meeting with Albert and Princess Charlene at the palace, a meeting with Monaco’s Catholic community in the cathedral and Mass in the sports stadium”
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“Monaco is renowned as much for its tax-friendly incentives and Formula 1 Grand Prix as its glamorous royal family”
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“The son of the late American actress Grace Kelly, Albert spoke in perfect, unaccented English when he visited the Chicago-born Leo at the Vatican on January 17 and invited him to visit”
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“The trip came together quickly after that, and raised eyebrows about why Leo had chosen Monaco, a hereditary and constitutional monarchy, as his first foreign trip in Europe”
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“In fact, there are good reasons for Leo to visit, not least because there hasn’t been a pope who visited in 488 years, since Pope Paul III in 1538”
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“Monaco's population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and also multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality”
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“Leo will be in Monaco for just under nine hours, and the principality is so close to home that he can get there and back to the Vatican by helicopter”
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“Monaco's financial support of initiatives to help Christians in the Middle East, including its participation in the Aliph Foundation, which works in particular to rebuild and restore churches and other sites of cultural importance that get damaged or destroyed by conflict”
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“Monaco hosts regular international conferences, especially on the plight of the Mediterranean. Leo has strongly carried on Francis’ legacy of ecological stewardship, and the environment is expected to be a topic of discussion”
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