Notre Dame’s appearance hasn’t always been treated with such reverence. During the French Revolution, the cathedral was used as a storehouse, and statues of biblical kings on the facade were beheaded ...

Established in 1883 and granted annually, the school’s Laetare Medal is named after the Fourth Sunday of Lent, or ‘Laetare ...

For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s Basilica to be crowned ...

Notre Dame lectures, a Lenten hallmark, have a long history dating back to the French monarchy, but in contemporary times were renewed and systematized in 1834 by a young lay Catholic student, ...

Notre Dame lectures, a Lenten hallmark, have a long history dating back to the French monarchy, but in contemporary times ...

When France’s Chief Architect for Historic Monuments Phillippe Villeneuve surveyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris a day after it was ravaged by fire six years ago, he was filled with anxiety.