'He said hello': Families pray with pope on Paris avenue

PARIS, France - Jumping down from her uncle's shoulders, seven-year-old Dona ran grinning to her mother after Pope Leo XIV waved at her on his way past on a famed Paris avenue.'He said hello to you,' said her 43-year-old mother Michelle Gomis, beaming, after the popemobile drove past.They were among an estimated 800,000 faithful who lined the Champs Elysees and adjoining streets in Paris on Saturday to welcome the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for a giant open-air mass.'It's such a joy for us to see the pope,' said the French mother-of-three of Senegalese origin, before settling down on a blanket with her family to listen to mass on the high-end shopping avenue's sidewalk.Just an hour earlier, the excitement had built up ahead of the main Paris event of the first official papal visit to the European nation in 18 years.Agathe Chateau Frilloux sprinted down a long road…