Catholic Church too slow helping abuse victims, Vatican panel says To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. The September 25-28 France trip, which was confirmed in May, will be Leo’s fourth foreign voyage of the year. Leo made a day trip to Monaco in March, visited four African nations in April and Spain and the Canary Islands in June. Francis visited France twice, but never on a state visit to Paris. He made a day trip to Strasbourg in 2014 to address the European Parliament and Council of Europe.