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by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | Abuse, Church in Europe, France, French bishops, French Catholics, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
French Catholics are reeling after a series of recent abuse revelations, including a top prelate’s confession of misconduct, with the latest involving a priest who is accused of drugging and raping a teenager earlier this month.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, News | 0 |
The French bishops’ conference overhauled its agenda for its November plenary meeting to deal with the anger after the discovery that a bishop allowed by the Vatican to retire actually was disciplined for sexual abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Clericalism, French Catholics, News | 0 |
The Catholic Church may be at a turning point in its history, believes Danièle Hervieu-Léger, a leading French sociologist on religion. To survive in secularized Western societies, the institution will have to reform itself, she says.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, French Catholics, missionary, News, rosary | 0 |
In 1822, a young and rich French woman, Pauline Jaricot, founded the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, France, French Catholics, Immigrants, Marie Le Pen, News, President Emmanuel Macron | 0 |
French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image to broaden her appeal in next week’s presidential election.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, French Catholics, Immigrants, New York City, News | 0 |
Although the Catholic rituals are the same, regardless of language, for many the ability to worship in French is spiritual.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Charismatics, Church in the Middle East, French Catholics, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Muslims, News | 0 |
Childhood friends Gonzague Browaeys and Theophile Robin had not even considered taking a pilgrimage of faith when they began planning their end-of-university studies trip late last year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | abuse payouts, Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, News | 0 |
France’s Catholic Church agreed on Monday to financially compensate sex abuse victims in what the president of the country’s Bishop Conference hailed as a “decisive step.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2021 | abuse victims, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis urged the bishops of France to carry the cross of the abuse crisis with faith and hope, to console and care for victims and reach out to the majority of priests who are faithful to their vocation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Acting, Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French Catholics, News, Theater | 0 |
At the age of eight, Laurent Martinez was sexually abused by a priest. Forty years later, he has chosen to make his story into a play, to show the devastating consequences and how speaking out can help victims heal and rebuild.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, News | 0 |
France’s government has summoned the head of the French bishops’ conference after he said that secrets shared in the confessional are above the law, as the country reels from new revelations of large-scale child sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, France, French bishops, French Catholics, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church in the country to “undertake a path of redemption.”
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