In the latest story from Our Sunday Visitor’s series on the study-abroad programs at Catholic colleges and universities, writer Maryann Eidemiller reports on St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, which has been sending students through its fully immersive program to Ambialet, France,
Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118
Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.
"There is great sadness but ... it was her desire to join her
France's Catholic bishops have set up what they believe to be the world's first major national church court, replacing a previous network of local tribunals, although sexual abuse cases involving children will still be referred to the Vatican.
"As a community of believers,
Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, looks at a key organization in France that is seeking to protect natural marriage. La Manif Pour Tous, which means “the demonstration for all,” is a movement founded in France by de La Rochère,
On Monday, a high-ranking Catholic prelate in France, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, retired archbishop of Bordeaux, confessed that he sexually abused a teenage girl 35 years ago. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Msgr. Owen F. Campion writes: “Not to be
French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, former head of the French bishops' conference, admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl 35 years ago.
The revelation came in a letter from Cardinal Ricard read by Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, president of the bishops' conference, during
The French bishops' conference overhauled its agenda for its November plenary meeting to deal with "the anger, shame, powerlessness (and) incomprehension" they and their people felt after discovering that a bishop allowed by the Vatican to retire actually was disciplined for sexual
As France begins a national debate on euthanasia, Pope Francis urged politicians from the country's northern region to reject the "throwaway culture" and instead focus on providing care and relief to those nearing the end of their lives.
"I dare to hope that
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 Michel Aupetit for an "ambiguous" relationship with
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 de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims said the election