PARIS, France (AFP) -French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday battled to contain a new controversy after lawmakers ...

The founder of the Emmaues association, the French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre appears on the TV programm "La Marche du Siecle" in Paris in 1988. The Catholic Church in France has called on ...

The trial of a Tunisian man charged with the triple murder of visitors and staff at the Notre Dame Basilica in the southern ...

The Paris public prosecutor’s office has announced that, despite serious allegations of abuse, it will not investigate Abbé ...

In his message, the Pope asked summit participants to have the “courage and determination” to defend humanity through their ...

PIC1|The first Chinese Catholic Church in France was established in the light of the growing Chinese congregation in the country. On Sunday, the Archbishop of Paris Andre Vingt-Trois consecrated the ...

Chems-Eddine Hafiz made the proposal on Feb. 10 at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican during an audience with the pope.

While the governmental instability that followed the June 9 European elections bought time for opponents of active aid in ...

PARIS (AP) — Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over ...

The Catholic Church in France has called on prosecutors to investigate allegations of serious sexual abuse by the once venerated priest Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007.

France’s Catholic Church on Friday said that it had asked ... He said he had requested that the Paris public prosecutor “consider opening an investigation into Abbe Pierre”.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to split an "end of life" bill to separate the issue of "active assistance in dying" from that of palliative care -- a proposal seen as a smart attempt to ...