why does Pope Francis refuse to visit “France”?

« Provided that François does not say “I come to Corsica but I do not come to France !” , as he had launched for his visit to Marseille . » This reaction comes from an influential French bishop who had just learned, in Lourdes last November, that the pope would visit Corsica in mid-December. Flattering for the autonomists and the separatists, the effect of the formula would be explosive, even disastrous, seen from Paris. We can hope that Pope Francis will have been well advised before crossing, on Sunday morning, this stretch of the Mediterranean which separates Rome from Ajaccio, cities located at the same latitude. But François is a free man, who does not hesitate to say what he thinks, even when it is not politically correct.

Whether official, unofficial, national or municipal, cultural or religious, the Pope’s visits are nevertheless “political”, in the noble sense of the term, since the head of the Catholic Church, by visiting…