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Number of adult baptisms in France rises again this year as crucifixes are erected across countryside

April 14, 2023

There was significant rise in the number of baptisms at this year’s Easter vigil in France, according to figures published before the Easter Triduum by the French National Service for Catechesis and Catechumenate. This year at the Easter vigil, 5,463 adults received the sacrament of baptism across France, a 21 per cent rise on the

French investigator: As many as 10 thousand victims of clerical sexual abuse

March 03, 2021

Jean-Marc Sauvé, the highly regarded 71-year-old career civil servant and former vice-president of France’s Council of State, told reporters on Tuesday that a June 2020 figure of 3,000 victims “is certainly an underestimate.”

French cardinal: this election has been our worst ever

April 27, 2017

Cardinal Barbarin said it feels like democracy has 'gone mad' in France and that voters seem 'totally lost'