During Saturday's Mass in Paris, the Pope told worshippers that Catholics should not keep their faith to themselves but "let it overflow so that those you meet may be refreshed".The leader of the Catholic Church also addressed young people in his speech, describing them as "today's Church"."How beautiful it is to see your enthusiasm, energy and commitment, and the joy you bring to Christian communities," he said.The number of regular worshippers in France has fallen from 35% of the population in 1960 to less than 5% today, while the number of priests has shrunk by two-thirds from 25,000 in 1990 to fewer than 9,000.But in recent years there have been signs of a growing interest in religious tradition, with the number of adult baptisms more than doubling in five years to hit 10,000 in 2025.Sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church has been widespread and dates back to the 1950s.The issue was first given significant media attention in the 1980s in the US and Canada before similar stories emerged across the world, including widespread historic abuse in Ireland and the UK.Reporting by the Boston Globe newspaper in the early 2000s, dramatised in the 2015 film Spotlight, exposed widespread abuse and how paedophile priests were moved around by Church leaders instead of being held accountable. It prompted people to come forward across the US and around the world.A Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.Leo's predecessor Pope Francis tried to address the issue by holding an unprecedented summit on paedophilia in the Church, and by changing its laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse, but problems remain.