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General: MARSEILLE POPE MEETS FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2023
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Marseille: Pope meets French President Emmanuel Macron
Pope Francis meets with French President, Emmanuel Macron, during his journey to Marseille.
By Vatican News
On Saturday 23 September, Pope Francis met twice with the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
In a first, brief encounter, the two leaders greeted each other on the front terrace of the auditorium under the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, where the Pope participated in the concluding session of the Rencontres Méditerranéennes. They then met privately in the Salon d'honneur du Maire. Together with President Macron welcoming the Holy Father to the southern port city chosen as the destination of his 44th Apostolic Journey abroad, was his wife, Brigitte.
Macron was seated in the front row of the large hall where the Pope delivered his speech at the close of the Rencontres Méditerranéennes (Mediterranean Encounters), at the end of which the Pontiff quoted an anecdote about the President: "Once the president invited me to visit France and he told me, 'the important thing is that you come to Marseille'."
According to a statement by the Holy See Press Office, after an official photo, "a private conversation took place, followed by the presentation of the President's family and the exchange of gifts". At the same time, reads the statement, in a room nearby, "a short meeting took place between Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Madame Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne". Present at this meeting were also the Deputy Secretary of State Edgar Peña Parra; the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Titular Archbishop of Canosa, His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore; and a Nunciature Councillor.
"At the end of the meeting with the President of the Republic, the Holy Father returned by car to the Archbishop's residence where he had lunch in private".
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Pope meets French President Emmanuel Macron
Pope Francis meets with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, for their third private audience in the Vatican, and discusses the desire to promote peace in a world overtaken by war, especially the war in Ukraine.
By Deborah Castellano Lubov
Pope Francis received French President Emmanuel Macron in the Vatican on Monday.
This marks their third private audience since the start of the pontificate.
Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron
War in Ukraine
According to a brief statement from the Holy See Press Office, the conversations were cordial and were especially focused on the ongoing war in Ukraine.
"During the cordial discussions, which took place in the Secretariat of State," it said, "the parties focused on matters of an international nature, starting from the conflict in Ukraine, with special attention to the humanitarian situation."
"Particular consideration," it continued, "was given to the region of the Caucasus, the Middle East, and Africa."
After meeting with Pope Francis, President Macron met with Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and Multilateral Organizations, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher.
Exchange of gifts
The audience with the Pope in the Apostolic Palace lasted almost an hour, and there was the customary exchange of gifts.
The Pope gifted a collection of his works, as well as a bronze medallion representing Saint Peter and the colonnade. The papal documents included this year's Message for Peace, the Document on Human Fraternity, and the book on the Statio Orbis of 27 March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Pope and President Macron of France exchange gifts
The French President gifted the Pope a first edition, in French, of the book For Perpetual Peace by German philosopher Emmanuel Kant.
On Sunday, President Macron was among the opening speakers at the Rome-held ‘Spirit of Assisi’ event, sponsored by the Community of Sant’Egidio.
The three-day annual peace event, whose theme this year as war wages on in Ukraine is ‘The Cry for Peace,’ will conclude with the speech and participation of Pope Francis on Tuesday at the Colosseum at the prayer for peace.
Past encounters
On Sunday evening, President Macron also met with Italy's new Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
The French president had previously visited the Pope on 26 November 2021 and 26 June 2018.
During those meetings, issues of major concern were the situation of refugees and migrants, climate change, and the Middle East.
Over the years, the Pope and French President have had several phone calls, including when the Pope expressed his condolences for the 2020 stabbing attack at the Notre Dame Cathedral de Nice, where three people were killed; and when the French President contacted the Pope to emphasize the significance of his Apostolic Visit to Iraq in 2021, marking the first-ever visit of a Pope to the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
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Pope's visit to France stirs debate over immigration, secularism
By Reuters
September 14, 20231:05 PM GMT-3Updated a year ago
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PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis' scheduled visit to France next week has stirred debate in the French political class, with left-wing politicians criticising the president for attending Mass while the far-right objects to the pope's positive views on immigration.
Francis will travel to Marseille, France's second city and a historic gateway for immigrants, where he is expected to send a message of tolerance towards migrants and give his Sunday Mass to an expected 60,000 at the city's famous soccer stadium.
The Elysee Palace confirmed on Thursday that President Emmanuel Macron will attend the Mass, immediately causing a barrage of criticism from left-wing politicians who said it goes against the French state's secular values.
"A president should not show preference for one particular religion," the head of the French Communist party, Fabien Roussel, said.
France, which once prided itself on being the so-called "eldest daughter of the Church" for its historical role as a bastion of Roman Catholicism, has since the early 20th century enforced a strict separation of state and faith.
Debates over France's particular brand of secularism, known as laicite, regularly inflame political talk-shows, from whether nativity scenes can be placed in public buildings, or if the state should still observe religious holidays.
Macron's advisers said French leaders had attended Mass before, and there was "confusion" as to what secularism means.
"The Republic neither recognises nor funds any religion, but that does in no way rule out the fact that the Republic should cultivate relations with all religions," one adviser said.
Macron will not take communion at the mass, they said.
Meanwhile, the far-right took aim at the pope's welcoming message on immigration. Leading the charge was Marion Marechal, niece of far-right leader Marine Le Pen and a candidate for European parliament elections next year.
"I disagree with Pope Francis," Marechal said on BFM TV on Thursday. "He has his the prism of a South-American pope who doesn't actually know the type of immigration we know and who, clearly, doesn't fully realise what we're dealing with."
Francis has made support of migrants a major theme of his pontificate. His impassioned speeches that called their exclusion "scandalous, disgusting and sinful" have put him on a collision course with right-wing politicians in Europe. France, home to Europe's largest Muslim community, is regularly convulsed with debates on immigration.
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France’s Macron and Pope Francis hold unusually long meeting
Updated 26 June 2018
June 26, 201812:24
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- Macron and Pope Francis spoke for nearly an hour in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace
- The two discussed “protection of the environment, migration, and commitment to conflict prevention and resolution"
VATICAN CITY: French President Emmanuel Macron, accused at home of straining France’s secular foundations by seeking to mend ties with the Catholic Church, had an unusually long and cordial meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday.
They spoke for nearly an hour in the official papal library in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, about twice as long as Francis usually spends with heads of state or government.
A Vatican statement said the two discussed “protection of the environment, migration, and multilateral commitment to conflict prevention and resolution, especially in relation to disarmament.”
They also spoke about prospects for resolving conflicts in the Middle East and Africa and the future of Europe, it said.
At the end of the private part of the audience, Macron gave Francis a rare copy of Goerges Bernanos 1936 book “Diary of a Country Priest.”
“I’ve read this book many times and it has done me good. It is a book that I have always loved very much,” the pope told Macron, 40, who was accompanied in the public parts of the meeting by his wife Brigitte, 65.
Francis gave Macron a medallion depicting Martin of Tours, a 4th century saint who is depicted cutting his cloak in half to give it to a beggar in winter.
“This means the vocation of those who govern is to help the poor. We are all poor,” Francis told Macron as he was giving him the medallion.
As Macron left the library, he and Francis exchanged a two-cheek kiss, another very usually gesture between a pope and a visiting head of state.
The Vatican was expected to issue a statement later on the themes discussed during the private talks.
Two months ago, Macron called for stronger ties between the state and the Catholic Church, a move critics said blurred a line that has kept French government free of religious intervention for generations.
The issue is particularly sensitive in historically Catholic France, where matters of faith and state were separated by law in 1905 and which is now home to Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish communities.
France’s guiding principles also hold that religious observance is a private matter, for all faiths.
Macron was raised in a non-religious family and was baptized a Roman Catholic at his own request when he was 12.
On Tuesday afternoon Macron was due to be installed as the “First and Only Honorary Canon” of the Rome Basilica of St. John’s in Lateran, which is the pope’s cathedral in his capacity as bishop of Rome.
Under a tradition that began in the 15th century when France was a monarchy, French leaders are automatically given the title.
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