Report: Leo the moderate? Pope in France defends EU values

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The available account reports that there's a new Pope in town and he's got very different ideas on what France's far-right calls the defense of Christian civilization. The report also notes that Leo the 14th concluding his trip to France in the eastern city of Metz, hometown of a founding father of present-day European federalism Maurice Schumann. There, the head of the world's largest organized religion proudly stated fact, that Europe’s roots are Christian, dating back to the Romans, all the while hailing an EU model that transcends 'us versus them' ideology, which brushes aside ‘might is right’ in favor of human rights and international law.

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