More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve as the stage for over 300 events in 32 sports -- including, for the first time, breakdancing
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich found himself taking over the Archdiocese of Paris in the spotlight -- three years after the Notre Dame fire, as the world watched the cathedral being rebuilt, and waiting for the work to be completed.
"When I was welcomed as
The Vatican Secretariat of State sent a formal statement to the French Embassy to the Holy See reaffirming that Pope Francis had sent a top Vatican official to investigate a French religious congregation and warning that interference by a French civil court
Philippe Villeneuve, Notre Dame Cathedral's chief architect, learned about the 2019 fire 300 miles from Paris and rushed to the capital to help firefighters save the iconic monument.
For France's top architect of historical sites, the evening of April 15, 2019, was especially
A civil court in Lorient in France's Brittany region has ruled that a French religious congregation, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet -- a former high-ranking Vatican official -- and two Vatican-appointed investigators committed "serious misconduct" in expelling Sabine Baudin de la Valette, whose
Over 12,000 people, both adults and adolescents, were baptized in France on Easter -- a record number in the country that experiences what many church leaders have called an accelerated "de-Christianization."
Requests for adult baptisms have been on the rise in France for
France's bishops issued a joint statement March 19 in response to a draft law on "aid in dying" that French President Emmanuel Macron announced March 10 as a "law of fraternity."
Gathered at the Sanctuary of Lourdes March 19-23, the bishops expressed their
The French bishops' conference president rebuffed President Emmanuel Macron's comments that a law that would allow euthanasia is a "law of fraternity."
"It's a deception," Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims said of the proposal, as issues worrying French Catholics only pile up.
French bishops called for fasting and prayer as abortion was enshrined in the constitution by an overwhelming 780-72 vote, accompanied by a standing ovation when the result was announced as the parliament met in Versailles.
After several months of legislative process, the French
The reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, scheduled for Dec. 8, will be "six months of celebration and praise," the archbishop of Paris said in a pastoral letter. The iconic cathedral will reopen five years and 10 months after the devastating fire in