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Juliette Linley

Juliette Linley

Zurich-based broadcast journalist and Monocle radio contributor, host of Monocle on Sunday and The Globalist.

Sep 27, 2026

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20:34
wish has been
20:35
granted to him.
20:36
He was, they met at the Elysee, of course.
20:38
So, yeah, it's a lot of pomp and circumstance.
20:41
And, you know, only 2%, I think, of Catholics identify, of French identify as Catholic or are practicing Catholics going to mass.
20:49
But if you look at the images of this Pope, he's like really such a welcome, such a... thousands, tens of thousands of people going to his masses, lining the streets and everything.
21:00
But then today, this morning, he is in Lourdes, in this grotto where the Madonna is said to have appeared to some young children more than 100 years ago.
24:06
Here's a nation which, of course, I think always wants to celebrate the fact that there is sort of secularism once you pass the threshold at school, etc., But here at the same time, we have a lot of money, probably not just the money from the Vatican being deployed to, of course, whip the pontiff around the country.

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