The Catholic Church in France recently reported that ... However, beginning with the violent secularism of the French Revolution in 1789, the nation has also made the occasional effort to limit ...

And a surprising number of those entering into the Catholic Church were former ... upon which we can fly. The French tried to live by reason alone during the Revolution, but man is a spiritual ...

The failure of the Catholic Church as an institution to live up to ... a regime that epitomized the anti-liberal and anti-democratic perspectives supported by the church since the French revolution.

This engagement, like so much else, was prefigured by the papal name he chose, honoring Saint Francis of Assisi. He wanted to ...

He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic clergy (the First ... greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside ...

The head of the Catholic church had sought to maintain the Vatican's ... After opposing France's anti-clerical government ...