As Pope Leo prepares to visit France, can its 'Catholic moment' become a lasting revival?

Audrey Bourgès said she had to remind herself to breathe as she walked toward the priest in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to be baptized during the Easter Vigil last year.

After a nearly three-hour ceremony, tears filled her eyes as she embraced her mother, a practicing Catholic, and her father, an atheist. Her parents had allowed their children to choose their own religious beliefs as adults. Bourgès chose Catholicism.

“It was the best day of my life,” the 26-year-old said.