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Investigation opened into alleged abuse by Paris Foreign Mission Society priests

June 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Church of Foreign Missions in Paris. / Credit: EBASCOL/Shutterstock

Vatican City, Jun 21, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).
French bishops announced Wednesday that the newly established National Canonical Criminal Tribunal will open an investigation i… […]

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France’s Catholic clergy to carry ID cards proving they are in good standing

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 – Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Denver Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:05 am (CNA).
Catholic clergy in France will soon carry a standardized identification card linked to a nat… […]

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French bishops vote to open sainthood cause of Henri de Lubac

April 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 16

Henri de Lubac / Society of Jesus

Rome Newsroom, Apr 1, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).
French bishops have voted to open the sainthood cause of 20th-century theologian Henri de Lubac.The French bishops’ conference announced on March 31 that the opening… […]

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French church vandalized with satanic and anarchist graffiti

March 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 8

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 – Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in downtown Bordeaux, France, were vandalized wit… […]

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Watchdog raises concerns after arson attacks on German, French churches

February 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Auxiliary Bishop Ansgar Puff in the devastated Kreuzerhöhungskirche in Wissen, Germany, Feb. 15, 2023. / Credit: Archdiocese of Cologne 

CNA Newsroom, Feb 21, 2023 / 07:48 am (CNA).
Following a devastating arson attack on a historic church in G… […]

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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas unveiled at 700th anniversary of his canonization

January 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 10

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Denver, Colo., Jan 28, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).
The skull of St. Thomas Aquinas has arrived at the Dominican Convent of Toulouse, France, and placed in a new reliquary as the order celebrates the 700th anniversary of the saint’s … […]

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Former archbishop of Paris under investigation for sexual assault is ‘outraged but serene’  

January 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris. / Ibex73 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CNA Newsroom, Jan 4, 2023 / 15:50 pm (CNA).
The former archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, is reportedly under preliminary investigation for sexual assault on a vulnera… […]

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Why the French bishops have launched the world’s first canonical criminal court

December 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 7

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CNA Newsroom, Dec 12, 2022 / 07:20 am (CNA).
This month, the French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) established a new legal structure to deal with crimes and offenses committed by clerics and laity within… […]

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French bishop under investigation for ‘inappropriate’ behavior towards a woman

November 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Archbishop Jean-Pierre Grallet O.F.M. in May 2013. / Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Newsroom, Nov 17, 2022 / 03:25 am (CNA).
A retired French bishop is under investigation for what he called “inappropriate gestures” towards a… […]

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French ‘influencer’ priest posts video parodies of Mass, apologies to those who ‘may have felt hurt’

November 15, 2022 Catholic News Agency 5

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2022 / 16:36 pm (CNA).
A French “influencer” priest who was asked by the Vatican to help out with a survey for the Synod on Synodality has sparked controversy for his videos with sacrilegio… […]

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