罗马——9月25日，教皇利奥十四世将前往法国，这是梵蒂冈18年来首次对欧洲国家进行国事访问。人工智能和年轻信徒问题将是他访问期间的重点议题。
ROME – Pope Leo XIV flies to France on Sept 25 for the Vatican’s first state visit to the European nation in 18 years, with artificial intelligence and young believers near the top of his agenda.
当天上午10点（新加坡时间下午4点），这位首位祖籍法国的美国籍教皇将抵达巴黎机场，届时法国全国的教堂钟声将鸣响七分钟，以示欢迎。法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙及其妻子布里吉特将在停机坪上迎接这位71岁的教皇。这是自2008年教皇本笃十六世以来，梵蒂冈首位访问法国的最高领导人。
Church bells around the nation are set to ring for seven minutes when the first US pontiff, whose paternal grandmother was born in France, lands outside Paris at 10am (4pm Singapore time) for a four-day trip. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte will be on the tarmac to greet the 71-year-old Pope, as he marks the first official trip by a head of the Vatican since Pope Benedict XVI in September 2008.
距离法国大选还有七个月的时间，而极右翼势力正在觊觎政权；预计教皇会讨论一系列议题，包括人工智能的潜在风险、移民危机、教会内部的性虐待问题以及欧洲的和平局势。
Seven months ahead of elections to replace Macron, in which the far right is eyeing power, the Pope is expected to touch on topics ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence and the migration crisis to clerical sexual abuse and peace in Europe.
这位全球14亿天主教徒的领袖将于9月25日上午访问法国总统府，下午则将在联合国教科文组织总部发表演讲，重点强调对人工智能进行规范的重要性。
The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics will visit the presidential palace in the morning on Sept 25, before a speech expected to focus on the need to regulate AI at UNESCO headquarters in the afternoon.
“在他的演讲中，人类尊严、和平、教育以及面对新技术时应承担的责任等问题很可能会被重点提及，”梵蒂冈常驻联合国文化机构的观察员罗伯托·坎皮西主教告诉法新社。
“Human dignity, peace, education and responsibility in the face of new technologies will likely occupy an important place in his address,” Monsignor Roberto Campisi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the UN’s culture agency, told AFP. ‘To be near him’
预计在教皇访问法国的前两天，巴黎将有约一百万人参加各种活动。
A million people are expected at the various events being held in Paris for the first two days of his trip.
9月25日下午，教皇将乘坐专用车行驶2.5公里，前往巴黎市中心的大圣母院。他将成为首位视察这座在2019年遭受严重火灾后正在进行修复工作的教堂的教皇。
Later in the afternoon on Sept 25, Leo is to wave to the crowds on a 2.5km popemobile ride to the Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris, where he will be the first pope to inspect renovations following a devastating 2019 fire.
他的前任教皇方济各曾三次访问法国，但从未以官方身份出席大圣母院的重新开放仪式；2024年底大圣母院重新开放时，时任当选总统的唐纳德·特朗普和亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克也在场。
His predecessor Pope Francis – who visited France three times, but never officially – did not attend the Gothic masterpiece’s reopening in late 2024, when then president-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk were among the guests.
71岁的秘鲁退休记者卡门·昆塔纳表示，当教皇前往大教堂时，她将在人群中。
Carmen Quintana, a 71-year-old Peruvian retired journalist, said she would be among the crowd as the pope headed to the cathedral.
“能在他身边，我们感到非常高兴。”她这样形容这位教皇。教皇曾在秘鲁传教二十年，并拥有秘鲁国籍。
“We’re very happy to be able to be near him,” she said of the pontiff, who spent two decades as a missionary in Peru and also holds Peruvian nationality.
他当天行程的最后一项活动，是在巴黎郊区圣但尼的一座体育场内，与8万名年龄在17至35岁之间的年轻信徒一起举行弥撒祈祷和唱诗。
Last on his agenda for the day will be a mass prayer and hymns with 80,000 young believers aged 17 to 35 in a stadium in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
一件据信是耶稣在受难期间所穿长袍的圣物，将被从附近的圣但尼大教堂运至体育场，以配合这一场合。
A relic, believed to be the tunic Jesus wore during the Passion, will have been transported out of the nearby Saint-Denis Cathedral to the stadium for the occasion.
2025年的一项调查发现，在法国6900万居民中，只有约5%的人定期参加天主教弥撒。法国是一个高度世俗化的国家，其宪法确立了堕胎权，并允许部分患者接受协助死亡。
Only around 5 per cent of France’s 69 million residents go to Catholic church regularly, a 2025 survey found, in a deeply secular country that has enshrined the right to abortion in the constitution and approved assisted dying for some patients.
尽管近年来婴儿洗礼的数量有所减少，但成人洗礼却在增加，成千上万的人选择皈依这一信仰。
But while the number of infant christenings has dwindled in recent years, adult baptisms are on the rise, with thousands choosing to embrace the faith.
巴黎之行的第二天，9月26日，利奥将在协和广场及相邻的香榭丽舍大街主持一场大型弥撒。
Two more stops On his second day in Paris, Leo will lead a giant mass on Sept 26 on the Place de la Concorde and adjoining Champs Elysees.
随后，他将前往法国西南部的卢尔德。根据天主教传统，1858年，圣母玛利亚在一处岩洞中向一位名叫贝尔纳黛特·苏比鲁的贫穷农家女孩显现。
He will then head to Lourdes, a town in south-western France where, according to Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared in a grotto in 1858 to a poor peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous.
在卢尔德，他将于9月27日与七名神职人员性虐待受害者进行私下会面。
In Lourdes, he will speak privately on Sept 27 with seven victims of clerical sex abuse.
2021年的一项调查发现，在过去70年间，法国的神职人员或教会平信徒在受害者未成年时，对约33万人实施了虐待。
A 2021 inquiry found that clergy or lay members of the Church had abused about 330,000 people as minors in France, over the span of 70 years.
近年来，针对慈善界标志性人物皮埃尔神父以及卢尔德附近一所天主教寄宿学校工作人员的进一步指控也相继出现。
In recent years, further accusations have emerged against charity icon Abbe Pierre and workers at a Catholic boarding school near Lourdes.
此次行程的最后一段是9月28日前往靠近德国边境的东北部城市梅斯。预计利奥将发表关于欧洲和平的演讲，而俄罗斯对乌克兰的全面入侵已持续进入第五年。法国总统府消息人士称，欧盟国家元首和政府首脑已被邀请出席。
For the last leg of his trip in the north-eastern city of Metz near the German border, on Sept 28, Leo is expected to make a speech about peace in Europe, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine grinds on in its fifth year. EU heads of state and government have been invited to attend, a French presidential source has said.