Before the French Revolution, at the end of the 1700s, the Catholic Church had a strong presence in France. By then, many monumental churches had been built all over the country, a symbol of the ...

A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay for restorations. A view of the cathedral in the Cantal area of France ...

The French Catholic Church has formally requested prosecutors to investigate sexual violence allegations against disgraced ...

The French church has formally requested that prosecutors open an investigation into Abbé Pierre, a once-revered priest and ...

The staircase was found in the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France. The Romanesque church dates back to the second half of the 12th century, according to the French National Institute for ...

France's Catholic Church called on prosecutors on Friday to open a probe into sexual assault accusations against the late ...

The Catholic Church in France has called on prosecutors to investigate allegations of serious sexual abuse by the once venerated priest Abbe Pierre, who died in 2007. Georges Bendrihem/AFP/dpa A ...

Photo from Christophe Fouquin and Inrap Archaeologists restoring a medieval church in France uncovered a forgotten staircase. They followed it and found themselves in a 400-year-old vault ...