CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2021 / 03:11 pm MT (CNA).- A group of Catholic women in France has launched a manifesto to underscore the “beauty of the women's specific vocation.”

The bill is considered a near certainty to pass the conservative-controlled Senate, though the bill will not go before that body until March 30.

“I ask myself if it is necessary to go so far as [to make] a law,” said Cardinal Parolin in response to a direct question from his interviewer.

French Bishops launched the campaign to tackle the “widespread blindness to the dignity of every human being” represented by the new law

President Emmanuel Macron of France has announced that the Notre Dame Cathedral spire will be rebuilt as a replica of the one destroyed in the fire at the cathedral last year.

Traditionalist priests now account for 20 per cent of ordinations in France

Francois Hollande never took up the traditional honour. But his successor has surprisingly strong Catholic sympathies

The flash floods come as much of France is hit by heavy rainfall