Pope Francis lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The ...

In an unexpected development, France saw a record wave of adult baptisms this Easter, with over 17,800 catechumens — 10,384 ...

The motive was unclear for the attack, which occurred at a time of heightened concern in France about knife attacks in ...

France spends less of its national income on health care than America, but is by most measures a lot healthier. Its total ...

Truth is, many parishes in Europe are growing. But others are dying. As one theologian noted in a 1969 German radio interview, Catholicism was entering a time of painful decline in the modern world.

In contrast, Pope Francis recognised that Christians must go “beyond the walls” to embrace humanity as a whole. In his vision ...

Running at three hours with two intermissions, “Prayer for the French Republic” is an engaging and thoughtful play that ...

Pope Francis’s willingness to kneel before the least of us is a lesson in what it means to be great, not in the cocoon of ...

On September 21, 1792, or Year I as it was soon to be known, the monarchy was abolished and the French First Republic was ...

The Catholic Church in France will welcome a record number of adults into the faith this weekend with strong growth in the ...

In France, Islam faces immense scrutiny and is ... a direct threat to national values and link it to issues of security, secularism, and societal integration. As a result, Islam is increasingly ...

But last month, Minister of Secularism Jean-François Roberge announced a government committee will be struck to investigate how to further strengthen secularism in the province and he reiterated that ...