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Pope Leo’s Unfinished French Revolution

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Pope Leo XIV proposed corrections to the French Revolutionary motto of liberty, equality, and fraternity during a reception with French President Emmanuel Macron. According to Robert Royal of The Catholic Thing, the Pope read a message suggesting these changes to address issues in France and the West.

The proposal follows a visit by the Pope that drew large crowds across France, which Royal noted surprised many French bishops. This visit occurred as France faced widespread rioting and arson, which Royal described as a far-left operation involving Islamist collaborators rather than simple student unrest.

Royal connected the Pope's message to the 1938 book Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity by Blessed Fulton Sheen. The analysis suggests that the original revolutionary terms led to mass terror against religious figures and later contributed to the early twentieth-century socialist government seizing religious structures and closing 10,000 religious schools.

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