Notre Dame shines bright as French president visits days before the ‘grande réouverture’ December 2, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The world was left stunned when the first images of the rebuilt Notre Dame were published and spread with viral speed as President Emmanuel Macron walked through the bright, unrecognizably beautiful Parisian cathedral on Nov. 29, a week ahead of the Dec. 7-8 official reopening.
Former Femen activist apologizes for desecrating Notre Dame in 2013 protest against church, pope November 27, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News A decade ago, Marguerite Stern entered Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, screaming and topless, to demonstrate her hatred of the church and the pope. In a gesture of repentance, she has now apologized to Catholics for her actions.
Notre Dame de Paris returns to her cathedral with thousands of Parisians walking her home November 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame Cathedral, the 14th-century statue of the Virgin of Paris made it back home Nov. 15, accompanied by thousands of Parisians praying, singing and lighting candles as they walked their Virgin to Paris’ most iconic church, restored after the fire.
Ahead of World Day of the Poor, cause opens for France’s ‘charitable spouses’ November 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Social Justice, World News Ahead of World Day of the Poor, observed in the church Nov. 17, French bishops gave a green light to open the sainthood cause for a married couple who gave up their noble and rich life to care for the sick and poor.
Our Lady’s statue will be the first one to return to her Notre Dame Cathedral November 14, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News In what is seen by the church of Paris as a triumphant return, the famous statue of the Virgin of the Pillar will be restored to her place in Notre Dame Cathedral Nov. 15.
France’s culture minister wants visitors’ fee for Notre Dame; church of Paris says no, invites all October 25, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The countdown has begun for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral throughout the weekend of Dec. 7-8. As the last pieces of scaffolding are being removed on the outside, Culture Minister Rachida Dati has proposed introducing an entrance fee to visit Notre Dame, which has caused a stir.
French priest proposes ordinariate for TLM Catholics as ‘constructive way’ forward for church October 25, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, World News French Dominican Father Louis-Marie de Blignières first proposed the idea of the “traditional ordinariate” in September 2023, but continues to develop it today.
Church leaders speak up after French school supervising body fires principal of Catholic school October 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News The archbishop of Paris spoke out in favor of freedom of Catholic education in France, amid weeks of tensions and protests after the principal of a Catholic school was fired by the state school-supervising body for “breaching secularism.”
France mourns Catholic student murdered by repeat migrant offender next to her university September 30, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Immigration and Migration, News, World News It felt as if the whole country mourned and wept as family, friends and 3,000 other people packed the St. Louis Cathedral in Versailles Sept. 27 to say goodbye to 19-year-old student Philippine de Carlan, who was found murdered in Bois de Boulogne, or the Boulogne Forest, in Paris Sept. 21.
Stop the wars while there is still time, pope tells Sant’Egidio peace summit in Paris September 25, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News For three days, Paris welcomed several thousand participants from around the globe who took part in the 38th “International Meeting for Peace,” organized Sept. 22-24 by the Community of Sant’Egidio.
French bishops urge the Vatican, broader society to help investigate Abbé Pierre September 19, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News As the Emmaus Community for the poor investigates accusations of sexual abuse against its once-iconic, now disgraced, founder Abbé Pierre, the case made international headlines as Pope Francis commented on it while on his return voyage to Rome from Asia last week.
Tradition will meet subtle modernity in restored Notre Dame Cathedral September 13, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The excitement is mounting in Paris ahead of the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cranes remaining on the outside of the iconic French church.
