French bishops plan to open plenary meetings to lay participation
- Oct 18, 2019
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French bishops plan to open plenary meetings to lay participation
- Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
- Oct 18, 2019
France’s Catholic bishops plan to open their plenary assembly for the first time to lay participation following the passage of a controversial bioethics law despite mass church-backed opposition.
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Removal of Notre Dame’s melted scaffold to begin ‘in weeks’
- Associated Press, Church in Europe
- Oct 16, 2019
Melted scaffolding atop fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral will be removed “in the coming weeks” to allow restoration work to begin next year, France’s culture minister said Tuesday.
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Czech top court dismisses taxation of church restitution
- Associated Press, Church in Europe
- Oct 15, 2019
The Czech Republic’s top court has dismissed legislation that would have taxed the compensation churches receive from the state for property seized during the country’s communist era.
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2 women convicted in failed 2016 Notre Dame car bomb plot
- Associated Press, Church in Europe
- Oct 15, 2019
Two women who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and tried to blow up a car near Notre Dame cathedral in 2016 were convicted Monday of terrorism charges and sentenced to 30 and 25 years in prison after apologizing for their actions.
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Director: Victims call new film on abuse ‘the French “Spotlight”‘
- Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
- Oct 13, 2019
Anybody who sees “By the Grace of God,” a new French-language film that details a true-to-life French clerical sex abuse scandal, may be struck by similarities to the U.S. drama “Spotlight,” which dealt with the abuse scandal that erupted in Boston in 2002.
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Broken angels: Inside the lab working to restore Notre Dame
- Associated Press, Church in Europe, Notre Dame Cathedral Fire
- Oct 12, 2019
Scientists at the French government’s Historical Monuments Research Laboratory are working out how to safely restore Notre Dame Cathedral and identify what perils remain inside the monument in a race against the clock.
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