From the outset, the image had a political edge. During the French Revolution it was adopted as a royalist symbol ...

Notre-Dame, and many churches in France, are owned by the state and merely used by the church. That gave the French government, and President Macron, a big voice in the restoration project.

A parish priest in France was able to rescue the Blessed Sacrament and some 20 other religious artifacts — including the reliquary bust of St. Corneille — after his church was set ablaze by an ...

Bishop Dominique Rey’s resignation from the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon last January, after 25 years of service, marked a turning point in the Catholic Church in France. Known for his bold ...

The government has pledged to legalise same-sex marriage, which polls say 65 percent of French people support, in the first half of 2013. Same-sex and heterosexual civil unions, with fewer rights ...