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‘It will be breathtaking,’ Notre Dame’s chief architect says; iconic cathedral...

PARIS -- Philippe Villeneuve, Notre Dame Cathedral's chief architect, learned about the 2019 fire 300 miles from Paris and rushed to the capital to...

Father Henry de Villefranche tells about the ‘awakening of faith’ from...

PARIS -- For some, the Notre Dame fire was a sign of devastation of faith and Christian values. But for many more in France,...

Record number of people baptized in France on Easter; Requests for...

PARIS -- Over 12,000 people, both adults and adolescents, were baptized in France on Easter -- a record number in the country that experiences...

Archdiocese of Paris announces six-month celebration for the reopening of Notre...

PARIS -- The reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, scheduled for Dec. 8, will be "six months of celebration and praise," the archbishop of Paris...

People have a duty to save migrants in danger of drowning,...

MARSEILLE, France -- At a moving ceremony at the edge of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis led a moment of silence...

Catholics in France have mixed emotions on upcoming visit to Marseille...

PARIS -- In a rather unusual moment for secular France, the president of the country confirmed he will attend Mass celebrated by Pope Francis...

‘Preparing for the probable makes more space to receive the grace...

I recently returned from a beautiful pilgrimage to France, but unexpectedly brought home a stomach bug to my beloved family. Talk about a bumpy...

Pope Francis urges repentance ‘in the awareness of this appalling reality’...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church...

French police open arson investigation into fire at Cathedral of Sts....

NANTES, France — French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three...

French police investigate sexual assault claim against Vatican nuncio

VATICAN CITY — Italian Archbishop Luigi Ventura, 74, a Vatican diplomat who once served in Canada, Chile and western Africa, is under investigation by...

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