Paris Awaits the Pope: Ten Thousand Volunteers for a Historic Encounter

From September 25 to 28, Leo XIV will be in Paris. The diocese is calling for 10,000 volunteers. Believers of all ages are already responding. The visit will take place eight days after the vote on assisted dying. [ENCADRE titre="Volunteer for the Pope's visit" contenu="To register, go to [paris.catholique.fr/visite-pape](https://paris.catholique.fr/visite-pape)."]

What's Coming Up

From September 25 to 28, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will be in Paris. The diocese needs 10,000 volunteers: security, logistics, first aid. Believers of all ages have already begun to mobilize. Côme, Clotilde, and Paul are stepping up. They don’t just want to "attend." They want to take part.

What This Means

Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Paris will not be an ordinary visit. It will take place eight days after the vote on assisted dying on June 30. France will have spoken its mind on death. The Pope will come to speak to it about life.

Paris, capital of secularism. Paris, City of Lights. Paris, a city that has also been baptized, evangelized, and prayed in for seventeen centuries. This is not a detail. Nor is it nostalgia. It is a living memory.

The Call

Ten thousand volunteers: this number is not just about logistics. It is a wave. It is the visible, concrete Church, embodied in its ordinary faithful. When Côme, Clotilde, and Paul say yes, they are not simply responding to an organization. They are answering something greater than themselves.

"I will send you the Spirit of truth" (Jn 16:13). He will not come alone in September. He will have thousands of faces.

Sign up. Pray. And prepare to welcome.