The Catholic Church in France recently reported that 10,384 adults ... However, beginning with the violent secularism of the French Revolution in 1789, the nation has also made the occasional effort ...

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 ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer ...