FRED DE SAM LAZARO (guest anchor): Earlier this month in France an annual event took place that has been described as perhaps the largest public expression of traditional Catholicism in the world. It ...

Bishop Philippe Christory of Chartres delivered the homily at the closing Mass, celebrated by Abbé Jean de Massia, FSSP, the pilgrimage’s general chaplain. Young people hold crosses as they arrive for ...

The Chartres Cathedral in France has long been a crowd favorite, drawing millions of Catholic pilgrims and art lovers every year who come to bask in the famous blue glow of its 13th-century stained ...

In 2009, the French Ministry of Culture began an $18 million restoration of the medieval Chartres Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 50 miles southwest of Paris. By 2017, the Gothic structure is ...

Organized by the Catholic lay nonprofit organization Notre-Dame de Chrétienté — “Our Lady of Christendom” — since 1983, the pilgrimage to Chartres gathers each year thousands of pilgrims from all ages ...

Whatever Chartres may be now,” wrote Henry Adams, “when young it was a smile…. To us it is a child’s fancy, a toy-house to please the Queen of Heaven—to please her so much she would be happy in it—to ...

A bid to lighten the interior of France's famed Chartres Cathedral to its original creamy white hues has sparked an unholy row, with experts as far away as America claiming it is a “cultural disaster” ...

For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass, and relics, France’s Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic cathedral ...

For a chance to experience the mystery of the medieval church through statues, glass and relics, France's Chartres Cathedral, just an hour from Paris by train, is ideal. The towering Gothic cathedral, ...