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 ...

In an interview with Le Figaro, published online in October, Dati had claimed that “charging admission to Notre-Dame would save all the churches in France”. All of the money raised would be ...

Yet there had been a “huge economic effort” put into the restoration of the cathedral by the state. Notre-Dame was both a secular monument and a religious site for the nation. To attend a Tablet ...

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 ...

Which are the right ones? Which are the best ones?" And Irenaeus, the leader of a church in France in about the year 170, declared that "The heretics boast that they have many more gospels than ...