After a fire shuttered the beloved Gothic landmark for five years, visitor demand is expected to be high now that the doors ...

An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” returned Friday to Notre Dame Cathedral in ...

Today in Dispatch Faith, U.K.-based journalist Katja Hoyer (who grew up in socialist East Germany) brings an analytical eye ...

France's churches are a rich religious heritage that, unlike other European countries, largely belong to the national or ...

Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, ...

Pope Francis celebrated mass Sunday before a congregation of thousands in Corsica, a stronghold of the Catholic faith, the ...

The reopening of Notre Dame was a solemn celebration of cultural and spiritual renewal. Yet for some, the historic cathedral’s revival also felt like a meticulously choreographed branding event by ...

The 87-year-old pontiff used his address at congress to call for 'a concept of secularity that is not static and fixed, but evolving and dynamic', and urged people to pray for the cylone-hit French ...

AJACCIO, Corsica — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic ...

Pope Francis will visit Corsica, a stronghold of the Catholic faith, today, with locals hotly anticipating the first-ever ...

If major catastrophes have any advantages, it is that, by shocking us, they can focus attention and resources.

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday.