A French cardinal has been definitively cleared of charges of failing to report sexual abuse by clergy and has been indemnified from further lawsuits. The Court of Cassation -- one of four courts of last resort ...
A novel fundraising approach to restore one of the most iconic monuments in the world, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, enables donors to have a piece of history. On April 15, Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris ...
Catholic clergy in France perpetrated more than three times as many sexual abuse offenses as previously thought, said the head of a bishops' commission whose report is due out in September. Jean-Marc Sauvé, 71, a lay ...
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Jean-Pierre Cattenoz of Avignon, a month after the archbishop celebrated his 75th birthday, amid ongoing questions about his management style and handling of archdiocesan finances. Archbishop Cattenoz was named ...
French bishops conducted a "penitential rite of reparation" inside a church in which three people were murdered in late October. The Nov. 1 Mass of reparation was celebrated in Notre Dame Basilica by Nice Bishop André ...
Bishops in the United States and around the world expressed condolences after three people were murdered before Mass Oct. 29 in the basilica in Nice, France. French police have confirmed they are treating the killings as ...
France's Catholic bishops have joined Muslim leaders in condemning the beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb. "We will defend schools and those who form them, so ignorance can be fought everywhere," said Archbishop Laurent ...
A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city's Gothic cathedral. French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two ...
French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul on July 18. Although ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the nuncio to France, who has been under investigation for sexual misconduct in France and in Canada. Announcing the archbishop’s retirement ...
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