Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Laurent Ulrich as the new archbishop of Paris, the Vatican announced April 26. The diocese has been without an archbishop since Dec. 2, when Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop ...
The head of the French bishops' conference welcomed the reelection of President Emmanuel Macron, but also warned of growing social divisions, after the vote was marred the stabbing of a Catholic priest and nun. Archbishop Éric ...
After a private meeting with Pope Francis, the officers of the French bishops' conference said the pope encouraged them to continue responding together to a recent independent report on sexual abuse in the church since ...
France's Catholic bishops have unveiled new measures to counter sexual abuse by clergy after an October report by an independent commission estimated more than 330,000 children had been abused since the 1950s. Among 26 measures finalized ...
Recently, an independent commission in France charged with investigating the history of abuse by clergy and Church leaders in the country released a thoroughly detailed report that found more than two hundred thousand cases of ...
Church and government leaders in France are at odds over whether priests should be required to report the abuse of minors if they learn about it in the sacrament of confession. Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president ...
The Catholic Church's inability to make victims of abuse their top concern is a cause for intense shame, Pope Francis said. In the wake of a major report investigating the extent of sexual aggression and abuse ...
More than 3,000 pedophiles have operated within the Catholic Church in France since the 1950s, an official investigation found. Speaking two days before the publication of a report into clerical sex abuse in the French church, ...
A Rwandan immigrant awaiting trial for the arson of the cathedral in Nantes turned himself into police for killing the French provincial of the Montfort Missionaries. Emmanuel Abayisenga, 40, a Catholic, had been released on bail ...
It’s been five years since two Muslim extremists, swearing allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, stormed a Catholic parish in Normandy, France, and killed Father Jaques Hamel while he celebrated Mass. Calls to declare ...
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