The Paris prosecutor says it cannot investigate sexual assault and harassment accusations against nationally revered priest ...

Before the French Revolution, at the end of the 1700s, the Catholic Church had a strong presence in France. By then, many monumental churches had been built all over the country, a symbol of the ...

The Catholic Church in France has called on prosecutors to investigate allegations of serious sexual abuse by the once venerated priest Abbe Pierre, who died in 2007. Georges Bendrihem/AFP/dpa ...

Yet there had been a “huge economic effort” put into the restoration of the cathedral by the state. Notre-Dame was both a secular monument and a religious site for the nation. To attend a Tablet ...

A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay for restorations. A view of the cathedral in the Cantal area of France ...

When planning to see the reopened Notre Dame Cathedral I also decided to spend a couple of nights at Charles de Gaulle ...

The bishops of France on Friday formally requested prosecutors ... represents another significant chapter in the French Catholic Church’s broader reckoning with clerical abuse.