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The French bishops have only themselves to blame

10/22/2021 at 10:08 PM By Kevin Edward White
The very best one can say at present is that the French bishops are temporizing. They won’t be able to waffle forever. By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report, October 19, 2021 Alfred Hitchock’s 1953 I Confess! Is one of the master’s... read more

How French Catholics are responding to Pope Francis’ Traditional Latin Mass restrictions

07/26/2021 at 10:04 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Solène Tadié, Catholic New Agency,July 24, 2021 Responding to concerns raised by Pope Francis’ motu proprio restricting the Traditional Latin Mass, French Church authorities have issued a series of communiques seeking to reassure Catholics attached to this liturgy. The motu... read more

How France lost her dignity

04/25/2021 at 6:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
A civilization that legalizes euthanasia loses all right to respect By Michel Houchel, UnHerd, April 24, 2021 The French National Assembly is currently considering a proposed law “giving and guaranteeing the right to a free and chosen end of life”. The first article of the bill proposes... read more

Paris archbishop opens canonical proceedings against parish over maskless Masses

04/10/2021 at 1:48 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency, April 8, 2021 The archbishop of Paris announced canonical proceedings Wednesday against a parish priest for reportedly refusing to follow coronavirus health measures at the Easter Vigil. A statement from the Archdiocese of Paris on April 7... read more

European Catholics fear erosion of religious freedoms across continent

04/08/2021 at 2:02 PM By Kevin Edward White
by Jonathan Luxmoore, National Catholic Reporter, April 6, 2021 20210322T1115-EUROPE-CHURCHES-FREEDOM-1167921 crop.jpgA woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)A woman prays alongside a... read more

French Government Seeks to Ban Home Schooling

04/07/2021 at 2:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
The rise in Islamic extremism in France and the coronavirus pandemic have laid the groundwork for an increasing interference of the state in the nation’s educational system. By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, April 6, 2021PARIS — The legitimacy of the practice of home schooling... read more

Tremendous Victory: Notre Dame Cathedral Will Be Exactly Restored

03/10/2021 at 3:07 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Edwin Benson, Return to Order, March 10, 2021 Seeing the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris ablaze shocked many people, regardless of the depth of their religious sense. As the long day dragged into the night of April 15, 2019, news cameras of the world were trained on the fire. Many... read more

New Controversy Erupts Over Plans for the Rebuilding of Notre Dame

12/29/2020 at 8:32 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register, December 29,2020 A leak in the French media suggested the rebuilding of the interior of the cathedral is tilting towards a more contemporary style, but the Archdiocese of Paris insists no decision will be made before the end of March. PARIS,... read more
Church-goers wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus lineup outside the Notre-Dame-des-Champs church in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020.

Court orders France to rethink 30-person limit on worship

12/01/2020 at 4:20 PM By Kevin Edward White
French churches, mosques and synagogues can open their doors again to worshippers - but only a few of them, as France cautiously starts reopening after a second virus lockdown. Some churches may defy the 30-person limit they feel as too unreasonable, and other sites may stay closed until they can... read more

‘We want Mass’: Catholics in France protest ban on public worship

11/17/2020 at 5:08 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholics protest coronavirus restrictions under which public Masses are banned By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency, November 15, 2020 Catholics in France gathered outside churches in multiple cities this weekend calling on the government to allow them to attend Mass during the national... read more
A man prays in front of the Notre Dame church in Nice, France,

Can We Please Get Serious about Protecting Religious Freedom?

11/08/2020 at 8:26 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, November 2, 2020 The attack on a church in France and the foster-care case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday are rallying cries. ‘Blessed is the Righteous Judge.” Someone had painted an icon on the side of a building in lower Manhattan. It wasn’t... read more

Attacker of religious sister arrested amid spate of anti-Catholicism in Austria

11/02/2020 at 8:36 PM By Kevin Edward White

France moves to ban homeschooling in 2021

10/05/2020 at 6:28 PM By Kevin Edward White
Bishop Marc Aillet

Bishop Aillet: ‘The Church Must Proclaim the Truth’ on French Abortion Lw

08/23/2020 at 9:18 PM By Kevin Edward White

French cathedral burns in suspected arson fire

07/18/2020 at 10:31 AM By Kevin Edward White

French court orders government to lift ban on religious services

05/20/2020 at 9:13 PM By Kevin Edward White

Notre Dame Cathedral to Broadcast Crown of Thorns Veneration on Good Friday

04/09/2020 at 4:40 PM By Kevin Edward White

Confessions of a Former Freemason Officer, Converted to Catholicism

02/26/2020 at 7:14 PM By Kevin Edward White

French bishops approve removing parents’ gender from baptismal forms

01/15/2020 at 10:58 AM By Kevin Edward White

‘Pachamama’ film made pagan idols attractive to kids months before Amazon Synod

12/04/2019 at 11:16 AM By Kevin Edward White