A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral. French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two ...
French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul on July 18. Although ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the nuncio to France, who has been under investigation for sexual misconduct in France and in Canada. Announcing the archbishop’s retirement ...
France's Catholic bishops opposed legislation to allow medically assisted procreation for single mothers and lesbian couples and urged citizens to help block its enactment.
"Every life is valuable, always," Pope Francis tweeted after offering prayers for Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old French man who died July 11, nine days after doctors stopped providing him with nutrition and hydration.
The archbishop of Paris wore a hard hat as he celebrated the first Mass in Notre Dame Cathedral since a huge blaze devastated the landmark building in April.
Scenes of hope were seen and described just hours after a blaze engulfed the masterful Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
Before there was the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame was. Before Napoleon erected his Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame was. Before a penitent French people raised the church of Sacré Coeur on the hill of Montmartre, ...
As U.S. Catholic leaders grappled with the enormity of the April 15 fire that ruined the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the word "iconic" came to mind for many of them.
The president of France and the archbishop of Paris have vowed to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire, continuing what a professor of architecture described as the natural lifecycle of a historic building.
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