Pope Francis urges people to have children in first papal visit to Corsica

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass on Sunday in Ajaccio, Corsica’s capital (Thibault Camus/AP)

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday.

Francis also called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean island from secular France as a bridge between religious and civic society.