The fire made it much more famous than it already was,” says Father Guillaume Normand, vice-rector of Notre-Dame Cathedral, ...

To understand Notre Dame is to understand Paris itself. As with much in the city, it has endured layers of history — ...

My tour group and I were approaching Notre-Dame Cathedral, and a modest crowd ... narrow vaults of the nave stretched toward the altar, washed with rainbow hues from the famous stained glass ...

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange feeling that something warm and new was stirring within the French ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

The election of a new pope has begun following the death of Pope Francis last month. The secret conclave of 131 Catholic ...

A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

Devotees attend prayers lead by the Archbishop of Paris to consecrate the new main altar, designed by French artist and designer Guillaume Bardet, during a mass at the Notre-Dame de Paris ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...