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Pro-life group criticizes Macron’s call to add abortion to rights charter

January 21, 2022

A pro-life group in France has denounced President Emmanuel Macron’s call to add abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. “Advocating for the inclusion of a ‘right to abortion’ in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ignores the violence that abortion often inflicts on many women,” Alliance VITA said in a statement on

The battle for the heart of Notre Dame

December 26, 2021

It is symptomatic of the importance of the position of Notre Dame in the cultural life of Paris and of France that the proposals for its redecoration after the fire that destroyed its roof have caused such an unholy row. It is not only Catholics who are agitated by what some critics have called the

Pope mourns death of French priest

August 16, 2021

Pope Francis has said he is mourning death of a French priest murdered by an immigrant awaiting trial for an arson attack on Nantes Cathedral. Fr Olivier Maire, 60, head of the Montfort missionaries at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, was providing shelter to Emmanuel Abayisenga when he was allegedly beaten to death. The 40-year-old Rwandan Hutu surrendered to

Britain vs France in 1948

July 12, 2021

The Scottish accountant, novelist, and Catholic convert, Bruce Marshall escaped Paris just two days before the Germans invaded, served in the army through the war, and then returned to France when the war ended. Perhaps best known now for Father Malachy’s Miracle and The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith, he also wrote spy stories

French Catholic women launch manifesto on feminine vocation in the Church

February 22, 2021

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.”

French National Assembly passes anti-extremism bill proposing stricter rules for religion

February 18, 2021

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.

Cardinal Parolin Weighs in on France’s Controversial “Religious Separatism” Bill

February 01, 2021

“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 Catholics fast and pray in response to controversial Bioethics bill

January 15, 2021

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