French President Emmanuel Macron

This journey takes them from Genesis to the beginnings of the Church, through Christ’s death on the cross, symbolized by the crown of thorns.

With France poised to vote on a controversial “assisted dying” bill May 27, the country’s Catholic bishops launched a public campaign urging Catholics to speak out. 

Pope Francis exercised an outsized role in world affairs with his pleas for peace in Ukraine and Gaza, advocacy for the rights of migrants and dealing with hostile regimes persecuting …