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- Pope Leo XIV visits France as part of a broader papal recalibration.
- Erin Ogunkeye welcomes historian Miles Pattenden at the French reception.
- Historian Miles Pattenden of Oxford says the visit aims to refocus the Church on its European heartlands.
- Pope Francis previously emphasized the Church’s peripheries and the Global South.
- France’s deep Catholic history and shifting stance on Christianity, identity and secularism give the visit added significance.