The backyard of St. Thérèse’s childhood home in Lisieux, France. / Photo credit: Courtney Mares
Rome Newsroom, Oct 1, 2022 / 01:00 am (CNA).
Scenes from St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s beloved spiritual autobiography “Story of a Soul” come alive when … […]
Catholic practice collapsed in the West in the 1960s: the statistics are overwhelming. France, the eldest daughter of the Church, went from 25% Sunday Mass attendance in the 1950s to less than 2% now; the […]
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CNA Newsroom, Sep 11, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
This Sept. 11 marks 796 years since perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament began in Avignon, France, a practice that has now spread throughout the world.According to th… […]
Every day is the anniversary of some significant historical event. And August 24th, the second Wednesday of my French Wars of Religion class, was a gruesome anniversary – that of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. […]
Many unnamed Christians died in the city of Rome due to a brutal persecution under the Roman emperor Nero in the year 64 and are now known as the “First Martyrs of Rome”. Men and […]
Fr. Jacques Hamel. / Diocese of Rouen, Wikipedia.
Denver Newsroom, Jul 26, 2022 / 15:04 pm (CNA).
Six years after Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by knife-wielding terrorists while celebrating Mass at his parish church in northern France, loc… […]
A panoramic view of the burned area and an image of Our Lady affected by a fire at the Lourdes shrine in France, July 11, 2022. / Credit: Sanctuary of Lourdes
Denver Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 16:19 pm (CNA).
Half of the Chapels of Light at Our L… […]
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich is installed as archbishop of Paris in the Church of Saint-Sulpice on May 23, 2022. / Twitter @dioceseparis.
Rome Newsroom, May 24, 2022 / 10:40 am (CNA).
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich was installed on Monday as the new Ca… […]
The beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon, France, on May 22, 2022. / In Your Name/Diocèse de Lyon Flickr photostream.
Rome Newsroom, May 23, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Nearly 12,000 people attended the beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon, … […]
Pauline Jaricot (1799-1862). / Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.
Lyon, France, May 21, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
In 1859, the year that he died, St. John Vianney offered a cross to Pauline Jaricot, who will become the Church’s newest blessed on Sun… […]
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