While Protestants and Jews accepted this change, the Catholic Church opposed it, deeming religious associations incompatible ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

By then, many monumental churches had been built all over the country, a symbol of the power of religion. Many of these ...

Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris presided over the reopening with ... $760 million restoration project — took place on one of the Roman Catholic Church’s holiest days — the solemnity ...

The archbishop of Paris will strike the doors of the ... Notre-Dame, for instance, is owned by the French state. But the Roman Catholic Church of France runs the monument, and it opposed any ...

In Catholic news ... at the zenith of their power aspired to wield. Meanwhile, in Paris, Notre Dame — as with many churches in France — is owned by the French state. In 1790, just after ...

Nearly 170 bishops from France and around the ... from each of the parishes in the Paris diocese and one priest from each of the seven Eastern-rite Catholic churches, accompanied by worshippers ...

As a show of unity, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops encouraged churches across the nation to peal their bells at 2 p.m. as Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens in Paris after it was ...