First plenary of French bishops under Cardinal Aveline discusses turbulent topics November 11, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News The first plenary of the French bishops under the leadership of Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille as the new president of the bishops’ conference did not get away from the topic of abuse.
Young people don’t come to church for its members, but for God, star French sister-influencer says October 18, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, social media, World News, Young Adult Ministry At just 29, Sister Albertine Debacker is proving that habit and hashtag can go hand in hand.
Rosary Pilgrimage to Lourdes, with record turnout, highlights brotherhood, martyrs of Algeria October 8, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Marian Devotion, News, World News Lourdes saw a record turnout for the annual Rosary Pilgrimage, with 17,000 pilgrims from Oct. 2–4 — the highest number since the Dominican-led event began in 1908.
As Nantes cathedral opens after 2020 fire, Notre Dame in Paris presents reopened towers September 29, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The northwestern French city of Nantes waited for this moment for five long years and on Sept. 27, reopened its cathedral after the 2020 arson attack. The church celebrated with local and state officials present, and topped its reopening with ballet dancers flying on the cathedral’s square.
French Christians shocked by murder of Chaldean Catholic influencer from Iraq September 18, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News French Christians are reeling after the brutal murder of Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Iraqi Chaldean Catholic, stabbed in the throat outside his Lyon apartment.
Poll: France highly values Catholic schools, even as political turmoil swirls around them September 10, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Schools, World News Sixty-seven percent of French people value the option of choosing between public schools and Catholic schools under contract with the state, according to a survey published Sept. 2 by the French Institute of Public Opinion.
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors’ new president ‘pioneer in his field,’ French lawyer says July 14, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, made international headlines as he succeeded one of the most acclaimed figures of church safeguarding in the world, Cardinal Sean O’Malley — retired archbishop of Boston — in his role as president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Notre Dame prepares to reopen towers’ tour with return of famed statues of saints to rooftop July 9, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News PARIS — Symbolic lifting of the statues surrounding the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris marked the beginning of one of the last phases of the roof reconstruction before the towers of the Parisian icon will reopen to the public on Sept. 20.
Despite secularization trends, a Catholic revival is seen on the horizon in France June 25, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an “Observatory of Catholicism” was officially launched in June in Paris to produce regular, accurate and reliable data on Catholicism in France, thanks to the work of specialists, based on field surveys.
Iconic Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris celebrates its 150th birthday June 16, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The famed Sacré-Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a “stone host placed on the open wound of the city,” celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone.
Lisieux celebrates 100 years since the canonization of ‘The Little Flower’ May 20, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Catholics in Normandy commemorated the 100th anniversary of St. Thérèse’s of Lisieux’s canonization with three days of solemn celebrations May 16-18. These included a live broadcast of Pope Leo XIV’s May 18 inauguration Mass on giant screens in the Basilica of St. Thérèse in Lisieux.
French town near city with papal history to mark 100 years since Martyrs of Orange beatification May 11, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News On May 11, Archbishop François Fonlupt and neighboring bishops will mark the 100th anniversary of the beatification of the Martyrs of Orange — 32 religious sisters guillotined during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their faith.
