France’s Roman Catholic Church is scheduled to baptize more than 10,000 adults on Easter Sunday, ... However, beginning with the violent secularism of the French Revolution in 1789, ...

McGreevy cites a French observer’s account of the gathering’s anti-worldly spirit: “The church, through its supreme pastor, says to the lay world, to lay society, and to lay authorities: It ...

A new history of the Catholic Church manages to avoid ideology lives up to its ambitions, ... An image depicts burning royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu during the French Revolution, c. 1848.

Notre-Dame, and many churches in France, are owned by the state and merely used by the church. That gave the French government, and President Macron, a big voice in the restoration project.

John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce.

French Catholic church sex abuse: nearly 1,600 compensation claims since 2022. Nearly 1,600 victims of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have approached the National Independent Instance ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Catholic Church called on prosecutors on Friday to open a probe into sexual assault accusations against the late French priest Abbe Pierre, who was a lifelong campaigner ...

A conservative Christian group staged two days of small protests outside Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum over a sexual joke printed ...

The French revolutionaries, on the other hand, were trying to destroy French society as they knew it and start over with something else. Bloodshed was in the revolution’s DNA.

A French nun is charting an unprecedented period of reform in the Catholic Church as one of the highest-ranking women at the Vatican Nicole Winfield Monday 19 June 2023 07:08 BST ...