In France, audiences for Sunday Mass, broadcast on France 2 and produced by Le Jour du Seigneur, were multiplied ... by three! In three Sundays of confinement, they went from an average of just over 500,000 viewers to more than 1.5 million, with peaks at 1.8 million, for a mass carried out in the studio by Dominican monks, since all meetings are now prohibited. This Easter Sunday, the blessing Urbi et Orbi of Pope Francis broadcast live from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome should still largely confirm this audience.
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Same explosion at KTO, the French-speaking Catholic channel, available by satellite and on the Internet. Depending on the timetable and the subjects, the audience is "five to ten times greater than usual in France and in the French-speaking world" since the start of confinement, in particular with a flagship meeting in the morning at 7 am, mass personal story of Pope Francis live.
The diocese of Toulouse was pleased, for example, at the start of Holy Week, to have been able to bring together between "10,000 and 15,000 people" for the Palm Sunday Mass.Dioceses and parishes
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