Approximately 1,000 people have been working daily on the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France. / Credit: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 15, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA).
On April 15, 2019,… […]
French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting with Governor of Spain at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on March 21, 2022. / Credit: Victor Velter|Shutterstock
CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
Several French Catholic bishop… […]
Pope Francis meets with members of the Pontifical Academy for Life on Feb. 12, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Mar 5, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
On Monday France became the first country in the world to enshrine the righ… […]
An attendee prays the rosary during a demonstration called by the association “La Marche pour la vie” against abortion and euthanasia in Versailles, southwest of Paris, on March 4, 2024. / Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images
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Members of the French Parliament are shown when they convened for a previous revision of the country’s constitution at Versailles castle, near Paris, in 2008. / Credit: Joel Sagat/AFP via Getty Images
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 1, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
By a vote of 267-50, the French Senate this week approved a constitutional amendment to include women’s recourse to abortion as a “guaranteed freedom.”
In the wake of the vote on Monday, March 4, the amendment is expected to receive a final vote of approval at the Palace of Congresses in Versailles. If approved as expected, the country will become the first in the world to specifically make abortion a right enumerated in its constitution.
“I committed to making women’s freedom to abort irreversible, enshrining it in the Constitution,” said French President Emmanuel Macron on X. “The Senate has taken a decisive step, which I welcome,” he added.
In a Feb. 29 statement posted on X, the French Bishops’ Conference said it was “saddened” by the senators’ vote on the constitutional measure.
The bishops pointed out that abortion “remains an affront to life in its beginnings” and that “it cannot be seen solely from the perspective of women’s rights.”
The prelates also regretted that the parliamentary debate “did not mention the measures to help those women and men who would like to keep their child.”
“The bishops’ conference will be vigilant with respect to the freedom of choice of parents who decide, even in difficult situations, to keep their child and the freedom of conscience of doctors and all health care personnel, whose courage and commitment it commends,” the prelates concluded.
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
The new golden rooster is seen atop of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on Feb. 13, 2024, in Paris. / Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images
CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2024 / 16:55 pm (CNA).
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French farmers stand next to their tractors as they block the road during a demonstration at the French-German border in Ottmarsheim, eastern France, on Feb. 1, 2024, as part of nationwide protests called by several farmers’ unions over pay, tax… […]
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CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA).
The French National Assembly on Tuesday voted to introduce a “right to abortion” in the French Constitution, less than two weeks after thousands of French citizen… […]
Bishop Eric Moulins-Beaufort, president of the French Bishops’ Conference. / Credit: Bishopric of Reims and the Ardennes
ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 11, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has expressed its … […]
Rennes Cathedral in Rennes, France, is the seat of the Archbishop of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo. / Credit: Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 5, 2024 / 14:56 pm (CNA).
Nine bishops from France have instructed priests in their dioceses… […]
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