Maurice Schumann

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.

Leo XIV 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 heads 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.

We'll ask about the schism with the likes of French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen and the leader of her national rally party, Jordan Bardella.