Dressed in a white robe with a rainbow stole, the 68-year-old Frenchwoman acknowledged her ordination was unauthorized by the ...

A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France ... the book sheds new light on the ...

The France-based Institut Saint Benoît has been promoting sainthood for Schuman for decades, Reuters news agency reports. The next step in the sainthood path of the Catholic Church is beatification.

The original plan had been to release the memoir after his death. However, the pope decided to publish in light of the ...

Even the Catholic Church in France slammed that particular part of ... with swift pushback for those who instead viewed it as ...

The idea of "secularism" was put into a French law of 1905, after years of struggle between the state and the Roman Catholic Church ... as a cornerstone of modern France, ensuring strict ...

Mulumba was martyred in May 1886 at a place in Old Kampala. His executioners cut off his arms and legs, then roasted him ...

Some of the leaders were concerned to say, "Well, which of these writings can be read in church? Which are the ... in Gaul, modern day France, who around the year 180 says that no, the number ...

Tony Abbott, PM from 2013 to 2015, shares his views on the political stakes facing the Western world and his longtime ...

It started with a protest in 1517, when Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk, nailed his 95 Theses to a church door in ... England was Protestant, France was Catholic. In their bitter power ...

The organizers found themselves in hot water over a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" - with a decidedly modern ... The Catholic Church in France didn't mince words ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...