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Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

Rebuilding Notre Dame will be long, fraught and expensive
- Apr 16, 2019
Notre Dame in Paris is not the first great cathedral to suffer a devastating fire, and it probably won’t be the last.In a sense, that is good news. A global army of experts and craftspeople can be called on for the long, complex process of restoring the gutted landmark.

By Jill Lawless
$In Notre Dame fire, embers of unity for a fractured France$
In Notre Dame fire, embers of unity for a fractured France
- Apr 16, 2019
The disfigurement of Notre Dame, the splendid cathedral that has watched over the French capital for centuries and is now a blackened wreck mourned around the globe, felt to Parisians like a body blow.

By John Leicester
Fire out, organ intact but work ahead for charred Notre Dame
- Apr 16, 2019
Firefighters declared success Tuesday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris’s iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers and the purported Crown of Christ.

By Thomas Adamson

Pope says he joins sadness of Catholics, Paris and all the French
- Apr 16, 2019
The day after a fire devastated Notre Dame Cathedral, Pope Francis has written French Archbishop Michel Aupetit to say, “I associate myself with your sadness, as well as that of the faithful of your diocese, the inhabitants of Paris and all the French.”

By Claire Giangravè
Prayers, hymns, community shared in firelight of Notre Dame
- Apr 16, 2019
In an impromptu act of togetherness and hope, Parisians and visitors to France’s charismatic capital came together to pray for Notre Dame as a fire quickly advanced through the cathedral Monday.

By Danica Kirka and Elaine Ganley
As Notre Dame burns, a new Catholic cry: ‘We’re All Parisians Now’
- Apr 16, 2019
Rebuilding Paris’s Cathedral of Notre Dame isn’t just a historical vocation for the French, but for Catholics everywhere.

By John L. Allen Jr.

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