AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island ... prepared homily during Mass at the outdoor La Place d’Austerlitz, remarking at one point that ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis' one-day visit to the French island of Corsica ... Francis will celebrate Mass at the Place d’Austerlitz park, where it is said Napoleon played as a ...

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit ... La Place d’Austerlitz, remarking at one point that he had never seen so many children as in Corsica ...

For the best experience ... from businesses and individual churchgoers, he added. Corsica's prefect Jerome Filippini said that the visit would also cost the French state "several million euros ...

Pope Francis arrives at Ajaccio International Airport(Alessandra Tarantino/AP) Pope Francis’ one-day visit to the French island of Corsica on ... celebrate Mass at the Place d’Austerlitz ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis' one-day visit to the French island of Corsica ... Francis will celebrate Mass at the Place d’Austerlitz park, where it is said Napoleon played as a ...

Pope Francis’ one-day visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday ... Francis will celebrate Mass at the Place d’Austerlitz park, where it is said Napoleon played as a child.

But this is the first visit by a pope to Corsica, a French region with a distinctive identity, fierce independence movement and a special constitutional status currently under discussion between ...