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Seven Routes to Notre-Dame: Pilgrims Take Off Across France ahead of Cathedral’s Reopening

Aug 1, 2024

The legendary church’s reopening “is a historic moment and an opportunity to march behind the Blessed Virgin,” reads the Les 7 Routes Notre-Dame website.

120 Chaplains Offer Spiritual Support to Athletes during Paris Olympics

Jul 29, 2024

Among the chaplains, 40 Catholic priests, nuns, and laypeople are catering to the spiritual needs of the Olympic athletes in the Multifaith Center.

"Win the medal of fraternity": Pope Francis and Holy See Sports Association to Olympic Athletes

Jul 26, 2024

Pope Francis and Athletica Vaticana have invited all athletes participating in the 2024 Olympic Games to harness the “great social power of sport” to unite people and be witnesses of peace.

Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed by Islamic State terrorists as he offered Mass July 26, 2016.

After Teacher Beheaded, Some in France Turn to Fr. Jacques Hamel

Oct 20, 2020

Religious leaders gathered at a memorial to slain French priest Fr. Jacques Hamel Sunday, following the beheading of a Paris school teacher in an Islamist terror attack.

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens in France. / Patrick Verhoef/Shutterstock.

The 800-year-old Cathedral that Inspired the Notre-Dame de Paris Spire

Jul 19, 2020

While the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris was completely destroyed in last year’s devastating fire, another Notre-Dame cathedral, the largest in France, offers the opportunity to see the spire that it was based on and to venerate a prized relic.