PARIS (OSV News) — The excitement is mounting in Paris ahead of the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cranes remaining on the outside of the iconic French church. As scaffolding has largely been removed from the
During the Paris Olympic Games, track and field champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line at Saint-Denis' Stade de France. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred
If there is one place in the world where it's worth spending the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption at least once in a lifetime, it's the Marian shrine of Lourdes. The national pilgrimage to Lourdes is currently underway -- Aug. 12
Paris wrapped its Olympic Games bursting with pride, closing the Games at Stade de France -- a more traditional setting than the Seine River, where the opening ceremony took place.
Headlines in the French press reflected what most of the country thought watching
If one were looking for the busiest woman in the church of France these days, Isabelle de Chatellus, 46, from the Diocese of Versailles, is most probably the one.
She is the director of the "Holy Games," the French Catholic Church's initiative for
The square in front of Notre Dame Cathedral was bathed in sunshine Aug. 4 as representatives of the five major religions involved in the Paris Olympic Games met.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus came to talk about their experiences at the multifaith
he multifaith center that came to life in the Olympic Village along with the July 26 opening of the Olympic Games has a real champion overseeing it.
Father Jason Nioka is a former judoka and is now championing the faith as he oversees
Organizers of the Paris Olympic Games apologized during the Games' daily news conference July 28 to those offended by a drag performance during the opening ceremony that the French bishops said "included scenes of mockery and derision of Christianity."
In what was supposed to
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games -- a sports festival aimed to unite all nations of the world -- created shock and disbelief instead as Catholics around the world felt offended by the parody of the Last Supper, which was
As Paris stands in the starting blocks for the 2024 Olympic Games that kick off July 26, the Olympic truce was launched in the iconic La Madeleine church in the heart of the French capital July 19.
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris and