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Notre Dame isn’t the only French church imperiled this year

April 18, 2019 Alessandra Nucci 9

On March 17, a month almost to the day before the great fire devastated Notre Dame Cathedral, another fire broke out in Paris’ second biggest church, Saint Sulpice, two subway stops away from Notre Dame, causing […]

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Notre-Dame and the fragility of civilization

April 17, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 8

We will assign different proportions to divine intervention and human ingenuity, but that is a mechanical issue: Providence has decreed that Notre Dame cathedral be safe for the time being. Fire did not destroy her […]

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Signs of hope amid the flames

April 16, 2019 Father Seán Connolly 8

First commissioned by King Louis VII in 1163, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris took nearly 200 years to build. Since its completion in 1345, it has stood as a monument to the glory of French, […]

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