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00:00:00oh yes. What do I say at the end of
00:00:14Pope has already visited a center dedicated to the reception
00:00:17and integration of exiled people. It is located in the north of Paris. He
00:00:21called for living together in dignity and peace. We find
00:00:24Mélina Huette there. Meanwhile,
00:00:28the faithful are beginning to flock to the Place de la Concorde and the
00:00:32Champs Élysées. The Pope will celebrate an XXL mass
00:00:35starting at 3 PM. He will descend, he will descend, pardon me,
00:00:39before that, the Champs Élysées. This is one of the highlights of this visit,
00:00:43as is the meeting with catechumens. We will talk about it in a moment with
00:00:47Constance Colona
00:01:16The Pope has been multiplying meetings this morning. He went to the Bakita house
00:01:19located in the north of Paris for a moment of discussion with exiled people
00:01:23supported by the diocese in this reception place. We're going to
00:01:27go there right away to Mélina Huette who is on site. Elina, hello.
00:01:31This visit was obviously meticulously planned but it was meant to allow the Pontiff
00:01:34to speak with volunteers and
00:01:36refugees.
00:01:41Absolutely, it was a very quick visit, as you said, about 30 minutes
00:01:45we watch an excerpt from behind closed doors with about forty people, both
00:01:48employees and volunteers and exiles. No
00:01:51press team was allowed inside, only the pool images
00:01:55that you may have seen on our channel. The Pope spoke in
00:01:59French. A short speech but very
00:02:02spiritual. He praised a house that, according to him, shows that it is
00:02:06possible to, and I quote, meet and live together
00:02:09in dignity and peace. And then, of course, he mentioned
00:02:12Saint Bakita who gave her name to this house, a former
00:02:16Sudanese slave who became a nun, who invites us, according
00:02:19to him, to see the invisible and to free those whom the economy and
00:02:23culture today reduce to slavery. And then there was this
00:02:26phrase: "The history of the Church and of humanity is not written by
00:02:30those who give the impression of winning by imposing themselves and occupying
00:02:33space, but by those who make room." End of quote.
00:02:37So a tribute obviously to the teams of the
00:02:40Bakita house and all the people who work with people in vulnerable situations, whether
00:02:44they are exiles, people with disabilities, the
00:02:47homeless too, because that's what it was all about this morning. He
00:02:51said he was very happy to start
00:02:54this day in this place, a place that wasn't expecting the Pope, the
00:02:5718th arrondissement of Paris for those who don't know... it's not a place where one
00:03:01necessarily expected to receive the
00:03:03Holy Pontiff. We saw him shake hands with the volunteers
00:03:07for a long time. We also saw him receive
00:03:10Zinedine Zidane, the new coach of a sculpture as a gift and then end with a sign of the cross
00:03:12repeated by the whole room. He also had some messages from
00:03:16volunteers and exiles who would not have been able to see him and who had
00:03:19written a small note that had been invited to write a small note on a card that was handed to him during this
00:03:24suspended above the visit. This is a topic, Mélina, that the Pontiff has placed at the heart of his pontificate, just like his
00:03:27predecessor.
00:03:33Yes, absolutely. Leo XIV, he talks about it from his own history
00:03:37they say, "Well, they didn't want to give me the mic in this black culture when I arrived," and also we talk about the working class, the actually, because remember in May 2025, just a few days after his
00:03:40election, he addressed the diplomatic corps, calling
00:03:43himself a citizen, a descendant of immigrants, himself
00:03:47an emigrant, having been born in Chicago but having spent
00:03:51years in Peru as a missionary, and he has made it a common thread of his travels over
00:03:55these past few months, notably last June in the Canary Islands, he
00:03:58threw flowers into the sea for the people who died in the
00:04:02crossing of the Atlantic. He was
00:04:05extremely moved, we saw him in
00:04:08these images to pay tribute to these men, women
00:04:12and children who lost their lives during
00:04:15their crossing of the ocean or the sea in search of a better life. And
00:04:19then, you remember, on July 4th, he had been invited by the Trump
00:04:23administration to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, but he
00:04:26chose to go to Lampedusa. So you see, each
00:04:30time he makes decisions that are not necessarily verbal messages but that
00:04:34send very, very strong signals. And he also sends signals through his appointments, since last
00:04:38May 1st he appointed as bishop in West Virginia, Evelio
00:04:41Menjivar Ayala, who is a Salvadoran who entered the United States without papers
00:04:45in 1990, already 36 years old, after fleeing the civil
00:04:48war. So this is a choice that has
00:04:51his first meeting as coach of been interpreted as a message sent to Washington in the midst of the Trump
00:04:54administration's expulsion policy, an expulsion policy that is widely
00:04:58discussed on our channels. And you may have seen the latest documentary
00:05:02by Karina Chabour on the immigration police (ICE) that
00:05:05deals with this. And then one last thing, the calendar
00:05:09obviously matters, because tomorrow the Church celebrates the... the World
00:05:13Day of Migrants and Refugees. Thank you very much,
00:05:16Mélina. So another highlight of this morning, this time
00:05:19it's taking place on the Left Bank, a meeting notably with
00:05:22catechumens. We're going to talk about it right away with Constance Colona Césari.
00:05:26Hello, thank you very much for being with us. The Pope is trying to understand
00:05:30this surge that some young adults have for
00:05:34Catholicism, yes, which produces impressive figures in a country like
00:05:38France, a de-Christianized country, the first
00:05:40since the 60s. Finally, and therefore
00:05:44one that has, we could say, gone through decades of catacombs a bit
00:05:47for Rome. We remember Pope John Paul II who said,
00:05:51"France, what have you done with your baptism?" Finally, yes, we no longer
00:05:55see empty churches, we see a crisis of vocations, and then suddenly,
00:05:59for a few years, a tremor first, and then a revival with figures.
00:06:03We spoke of 100,000 young
00:06:05adults who, not coming from Catholic
00:06:09households, turn to the Catholic Church asking for baptism.
00:06:12So these are the people we call catechumens. For
00:06:162026, right at the beginning of the year, it's often at Easter
00:06:20that baptisms take place, but we know there are 21,000 new
00:06:24catechumens in France, including 1,100 in Paris, all over
00:06:28the territory, and Rome is obviously interested. The universal
00:06:31Church says, "Well, it's starting again in a country like France,"
00:06:35so we are scrutinized as a laboratory country. This
00:06:39is one of the reasons that marks the arrival
00:06:42of the Pope, who also decided to come and observe this phenomenon, which
00:06:46is still exciting for the Church and whose origin no one knows
00:06:50and whether it is, above all, durable, because there's
00:06:54that too. And this is how we explain it,
00:06:57and the French bishops themselves are quite humble when they go to Rome, they
00:07:01say, "But it's not us, we don't know where it comes
00:07:04from," and that also pleased the Pope, apparently, these human beings. And then
00:07:07a time of contemplation for the Pope.
00:07:11Yes, exactly. And then, still at the ICP, the Catholic
00:07:14Institute located rue de Vaugirard in the former
00:07:18Carmelite convent, well, the Pope is in a place of
00:07:22memory, and this is more sensitive, I would say. He will
00:07:25go and pray in the church, it's not the convent there, it's
00:07:29the Saint-Joseph des Carmes church, where
00:07:33were, well, massacred during
00:07:35the massacres of the Revolution, so in 1792, priests, hundreds
00:07:39of priests.
00:07:50these massacres and the Pope will go to the place of the
00:07:53massacres where the Church finally recognized
00:07:57191 martyrs of the Revolution.
00:08:00So it's interesting because we see a relationship between the Church and the
00:08:04Revolution, well, finally where they manage to tell each other things,
00:08:08including what's bothering them. You will stay with us, we will find you throughout
00:08:11the morning. Thank you very much
00:08:13Constance. We are going to continue to talk about the revolution since it
00:08:17is precisely at the Place de la Révolution, which is now called the Place de la Concorde, that this
00:08:21great mass will take place this afternoon. Access opened
00:08:25at 9 am, the mass is scheduled for 3 pm. The Pope will descend
00:08:28the Champs Élysées at 2:15 pm. The organizers, you know,
00:08:32expect a very large crowd. A large cross 4 meters high is
00:08:36altar, and it's true that it must be remembered that it was in these places
00:08:40that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined,
00:08:44as well as a thousand people during the
00:08:46Revolution. So it is there that hundreds of thousands of
00:08:50people will pray, meditate, and
00:08:53receive communion this afternoon. After Paris, the Pope will fly to Lourdes. The
00:08:57last Pontiff to go there was Benedict XVI, it was in
00:09:002008. Leo XIV will notably receive privately seven
00:09:04people who are victims of sexual violence in the Church. Roman Sabatier
00:09:07and Laura Alor Gali for France. After
00:09:10John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Marine is about to meet the
00:09:14new Pontiff. I'm eager to know who
00:09:18Leo XIV is, we don't know him well. We know he's
00:09:21an American Pope, which is already exceptional. A
00:09:25trip with his family, with his husband and their five children, to
00:09:28mark another event. It's my birthday, the
00:09:32day the Pope comes, so I'm very happy and I'm
00:09:35in a hurry. I would like you to pray for me because
00:09:39I have a motor disability and I
00:09:42would like to walk. Bosco, for
00:09:46a motor disabled person, Bosco will be able to meet the
00:09:49Holy Father after the Sunday Mass. I feel a little
00:09:52stressed about meeting the Pope, but at the same time I am joyful. In Perpignan,
00:09:56the diocese chartered 11 buses to take the faithful to
00:10:00Lourdes, among them, Malia, 21 years old. We
00:10:03meet her at the Catechumenate, the catechism for adults,
00:10:07where the young woman is preparing for her baptism. What I expect from the trip is still
00:10:10to return appeased, to get some
00:10:14answers to some of my questions. In total,
00:10:17200,000 people are expected this weekend in
00:10:20Lourdes.
00:10:22In international news, we continue to follow
00:10:25developments in the Middle East. The Houthis have targeted the Saudi capital as well as a
00:10:28large city in the southwest. These attacks have been continuous for 10 days and
00:10:32have consequences, as you know, on the export of Saudi oil. Crown
00:10:36Prince Mohammed bin Salman has requested Donald Trump's intervention, but
00:10:40without success for now. The kingdom is also awaiting
00:10:43possible military support from its Pakistani and
00:10:46Turkish partners.
00:10:49Donald Trump has rejected the Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait
00:10:53of Hormuz. The president preferred to publish on his social network a
00:10:57map representing the Strait with the mention
00:11:00"Trump Strait". The midterm elections in 5 weeks seem
00:11:03to influence the strategy chosen, favored in any case
00:11:07by Donald Trump. Axelle Simon.
00:11:10Have you talked about the war with Iran? Yes. Will there be progress concerning the
00:11:14Strait of Hormuz? I think we're going to make excellent progress.
00:11:18Announced progress, but it will still be a while. According to the
00:11:23on Friday an Iranian proposal to reopen
00:11:27the Strait of Hormuz, which is currently blocked, within 7 days. The
00:11:31proposal made by Tehran through Qatari mediators
00:11:34provided for the reopening of this strategic
00:11:37maritime route and the suspension of hostilities in the region, including in
00:11:41Lebanon. In return, broader negotiations would have been
00:11:44initiated, the United States would have lifted the blockade of Iranian
00:11:47ports, unfrozen funds, and renounced oil
00:11:51sanctions targeting Iran. Inadmissible for Donald
00:11:55Trump. The American president believes, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the Islamic
00:11:59Republic will not keep its commitments. The American president
00:12:02who would not rule out a resumption of strikes in Iran after the midterm
00:12:06legislative elections on November 3rd. Unacceptable
00:12:09threats according to the head of Iranian diplomacy.
00:12:12Iran accepts neither coercion, nor
00:12:16threats, nor intimidation and will not renounce its sovereign rights under
00:12:19pressure. Sovereignty is not
00:12:21conditional.
00:12:24Diplomacy does not mean capitulation and peace
00:12:27cannot be built on threats
00:12:29of annihilation.
00:12:33The deadlock therefore continues on both sides and Donald Trump even
00:12:36fueled the fire with this map published on his social
00:12:40network which proposes to rename the Strait of Hormuz the
00:12:43Trump Strait. The memorandum of understanding signed in June between
00:12:47Tehran and Washington provided however for an end to the war,
00:12:51to reopen this strategic maritime passage and to hold
00:12:54talks on the ultra-sensitive issue of the Iranian
00:12:57nuclear program, but no significant progress has been made
00:13:00since its signing.
00:13:04The floods in Bangkok are stabilized, but the capital is facing
00:13:07an extraordinary situation. A state of disaster has been
00:13:10declared. Heavy rains have fallen in the last 24 hours, the
00:13:14canals are overflowing, the east of the city is the most affected. The
00:13:17authorities are working hard to pump out the water. The last flood of this
00:13:21magnitude in 2011 caused the death of 500 people and
00:13:25damaged millions of homes. Burma is also affected.
00:30:13in France, the Pope has already visited a center dedicated to the reception and
00:30:17integration of exiled people, it is located in the north of Paris, he
00:30:21called for living together in dignity and peace, we find
00:30:24on site Mélina Huette, meanwhile
00:30:27the faithful are starting to flock to the Place de la Concorde and the
00:30:31Champs Élysées. The Pope will celebrate a mass in XXL format
00:30:35from 3 PM, he will descend, he will descend pardon
00:30:39before that the Champs Élysées, this is one of the highlights of this visit,
00:30:42as well as the meeting with catechumens, it will be discussed in a moment with
00:30:46Constance Colona