Some 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found. The head of the inquiry said there were at ...

If you think about the French revolutionary tradition, you’re most likely to picture the storming of the Bastille and the ...

A French mayor exasperated by summer downpours has ordered the sun to come out, and encouraged clergy to start “top-priority communication with heaven” to help end an unusual bout of wet ...

He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic clergy (the First Estate ... social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where ...

The former leader of the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists order made the promise two years ago in response to a Sun-Times ...

One presidential candidate this year may have more than a prayer when it comes to support from America’s clergy, a new survey reveals. Almost every Protestant pastor in America — 97% — says ...

TASS/. The recent terrorist attack against Dmitry Sytyi, head of the Russian House in the Central African Republic (CAR), may have been committed in retaliation for the French military contingent ...

When a New Mexico bankruptcy judge ruled against a clergy sex abuse claimant earlier this summer in her legal dispute with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, he may have issued more than a routine legal ...

Researchers who have assessed clergy well-being over time say that they are concerned by the toll congregational conflicts and ebbing congregations are taking on ordained leaders. At the same time, ...

(RNS) — Physicians and members of the clergy approach healing in different ways. Physicians treat bodies, which means taking vital signs, making diagnoses based on empirical evidence and ...

Across the United States, the issue of women clergy is currently a focal point in several Christians denominations, including the Catholic Church, where women are not allowed to be ordained.

CLERGY in the Church in Wales will now be entitled to an additional rest day once a month, to give them a work-free period of two days in succession. They will also be entitled to two holidays of ...