PARIS — Abbé Pierre, a French priest praised as a living legend for devoting his life to helping the homeless and using prayer and provocation to tackle misery, died Monday, his foundation said. He ...

Abbé Pierre: his first helpers included a reform school runaway, a slightly deranged policeman and a boxer The Abbé Pierre, who died yesterday aged 94, was regarded almost as a saint in France on ...

PARIS — Abbe Pierre, a French priest praised as a legend for devoting his life to helping the homeless and using prayer and provocation to tackle misery, died Monday, his foundation said. He was 94.

I have no sociological data to back this up, but I'm convinced that there's a strong correlation between someone's implied ecclesiology and their overall attitude toward the Catholic church. More ...

Born and raised a catholic, Henri Groues is determined to become a priest. WWII begins and decides otherwise : he joins the Resistance. Losing a friend on the battlefield, facing the horrors of war ...

There was a dramatic prelude to Christmas 1994 in Paris. On Sunday December 18, a crowd invaded a large, empty, office building in the rue du Dragon, a fashionable area near to St Germain des Prés.