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	Global Catholic News - Church in France Preparing for Pope at Lourdes
		Church in France Preparing for Pope at Lourdes
		LOURDES, France, JULY 26, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Lourdes, a small town in the Pyrenees, is preparing for a big visit.
		John Paul II is scheduled to arrive Aug. 14-15 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
	www.catholic.net /global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?news_id=57389&channel_id=2 (569 words)

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	Roman Catholic Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The doctrine of apostolic succession is one of the keystones of the Catholic faith; it holds that the pope (the vicar of Christ) and the bishops have in varying degrees the spiritual authority Jesus assigned to his apostles.
		In addition the Roman Catholic Church stresses that since the members, living and dead, share in each other’s merits, the Virgin Mary and other saints and the dead in purgatory are never forgotten (see church; saint).
		The contest between church and state continued, ruining the Hohenstaufen dynasty and, in the contest between Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France, bringing the papacy to near ruin.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ro/RomanCat.html (2272 words)

	The French Concordat of 1801
		In Paris the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the church of St-Sulpice were in the possession of "constitutional" clergy; Royer, a "constitutional" bishop, had taken the place of Mgr.
		The French law of 9 December, 1905, on the Separation of Church and State, against which Pius X protested in his Allocution of 11 December, 1905, was based on the principle that the State of France should no longer recognize the Catholic Church, but only distinct associations cultuelles, i.
		Exception was made for the church edifices actually used for worship; at the same time nothing was done concerning the numberless legal questions that arise apropos of these edifices, e.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/french_concordat_of_1801.html (2026 words)

	Noble Army
		France is a good study if you want to understand the difference between the Roman Catholic concept of "The City of God" and Christ's concept of a spiritual kingdom.
		The growth of this was certainly not restricted to France, but it was a factor in the weakening power of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century.
		France's part in The Great Schism (the Babylonian Captivity of the papacy to Avignon in France for seventy years) certainly weakened their devotion to an Italian papacy.
	www.angelfire.com /ky/dodone/NA11.html (1920 words)

	Roman Catholicism in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church of France is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
		There are an estimated 45 million baptised Catholics in France, (77% of the population), in 98 dioceses, served by 23,000 priests.
		Growing discontent with respect to the influence of the Catholic Church in education and politics led to a series of reforms during the Third Republic reducing this influence, under the protests of the Ultramontanists who supported the Vatican's influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_Church_in_France (846 words)

	The Reformation in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Catholic Church in France on the eve of the Reformation came closest to fitting the description of a national church.
		France was a large country with ample room for families who'd established ancient traditions of independence and significant blocks of territory that could supply money and troops.
		France was in the hands of the Guises, and the first of the Wars of Religion in France had begun.
	www.boisestate.edu /courses/reformation/france/16thc.shtml (7173 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Vehementer Nos (On The French Law Of Separation)
		While it was untiring in warning those who were at the head of affairs in France, and in conjuring them over and over again to weigh well the immensity of the evils that would infallibly result from their separatist policy, it at the same time lavished upon France the most striking proofs of indulgent affection.
		In defiance of all justice, it despoils the Church of a great portion of a patrimony which belongs to her by titles as numerous as they are sacred; it suppresses and annuls all the pious foundations consecrated, with perfect legality, to divine worship and to suffrages for the dead.
		The resources furnished by Catholic liberality for the maintenance of Catholic schools, and the working of various charitable associations connected with religion, have been transferred to lay associations in which it would be idle to seek for a vestige of religion.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4931 (3314 words)

	H-France Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of course, rejection of the Catholic Church was most decidedly not the Gallicans’ intent, because as committed Catholics, they did not deny the efficacy of the sacraments or even the influence of the clergy over the souls of individuals, including the king.
		Where the Gallicans used the tag “the Church is in the Republic, not the Republic in the Church” to indicate the priority of secular over ecclesiastical jurisdiction,[3] Parsons employs the phrase to suggest a number of conclusions that all stress the vital importance of the Catholic Church to the elaboration of the early modern state.
		[3] Parsons, The Church in the Republic, 166.
	www.h-france.net /vol5reviews/bernstein2.html (1515 words)

	Church in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Catholics elected to the legislative assembly were monarchist or Bonapartist or at least joined with the latter in an alliance of the "Rue de Poitiers," whose watchwords were "order, family, and property." The breach between Catholics and republicans had widened.
		The law was a reasonable compromise that let the Church and state form a partnership in the education of the young at a time when neither had the resources to fulfill the growing demand for schooling.
		A victory for Catholics, the extension of the principle of liberty of education was a costly one that may not have been worth the price of rising anticlericalis m.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/churchfr.htm (1446 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for concordat
		Its juridical status is now generally accepted as being a contract between church and state and as such it is a treaty governed by international laws.
		One of the most important was the Concordat of 1801 between Pius VII and Napoleon I which re-established the Catholic Church in France.
		Napoleon took the initiative in negotiating this agreement; he recognized that reconciliation with the church was politic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=concordat (826 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Concordat of 1801
		Of the 136 sees of ancient France a certain number had lost their titulars by death; the titulars of many others had been forced to emigrate.
		church of St-Sulpice were in the possession of "constitutional" clergy; Royer, a "constitutional" bishop, had taken the place of Mgr.
		concordat and the reconciliation of France with the Church to be solemnly celebrated in the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Paris.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04204a.htm (2128 words)

	Documents upon Napoleon and the Reorganization of Religion 1801
		The Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion shall be freely exercised in France: its worship shall be public, and in conformity with the police regulations which the Government shall deem necessary for the public tranquility.
		The Catholic worship shall be carried on under the direction of the archbishops and bishops in their dioceses, and under that of the cures in their parishes.
		The regulations upon the administration and the internal police of the seminaries, upon the number and the qualification of the professors, upon the manner of instructing, and upon the matter of instruction, as well as upon the form of the certificates or attestations of study, good conduct and capacity, shall be approved by the Government.
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/government/diplomatic/c_concordat.html (2782 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : No Ordinary Joy
		As night falls on the city, those who pass by Celine's church seem quite surprised to hear the buoyant melodies, the beat of tom-toms, and clapping, as music rises from their neighborhood church.
		Small groups like this are part of the charismatic renewal that is today one of the strongest forces for the Catholic Church in France — and one of the primary engines of the new evangelization.
		They gather in front of churches to sing and share their faith with passers-by, inviting them inside to adore God in the Eucharist or to speak with a priest.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4648 (3697 words)

	France is running out of priests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		France and Canada (and to a lesser extent, the U.S.) have political leanings so far left that they are teetering on the edge of the earth.
		When the Vatican tolerates France stealing the churches and the government owning them and distributing them through the interior ministry to legal national religions at the violation of separation of church and state, you have the ingredients for a slow death of worship coupled with government taking a hold of the power of the church.
		Last Sunday, the dingbat pianist/organist at my church announced that she thought it would "fun" for all of us to make a procession around the church (prior to Mass) while she played this "great new song." She had seen this done in another church (denomination unspecified) and thought it was "wonderful." It was positively sickening.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/570809/posts (3692 words)

	The Catholic Church: Hierarchical Structure of the Church \| Catholic-Pages.com
		At the head of the College of Bishops and called to lead the whole Church of Christ is the Successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome, the Holy Roman Pontiff, the Pope.
		Therefore, they in particular ought to have an ever-clearer consciousness not only of belonging to the Church, but of being the Church, that is to say, the community of the faithful on earth under the leadership of the Pope, the common Head, and of the bishops in communion with him.
		Although not forming part of the official hierarchy of the Church, certain bishops are granted special status and position within the Church by being elevated to the College of Cardinals.
	www.catholic-pages.com /church/hierarchy.asp (1021 words)

	1 Million Turn Out for Mass in Paris
		The 19th-century Carmelite nun, who is one of the patron saints of France, would be the 33rd person named doctor of the church but only the third woman.
		The pope, 77, looked by turns frail and preoccupied, or rejuvenated and touched by the enthusiasm of the crowd, the largest part of whom were from France, once proud to be considered the "eldest daughter of the church" but uncertain at the end of a troubled 20th century how much life remained in her.
		France's Socialist Party condemned the visit to the grave as an incitment to militant groups intolerant of abortion, which has been legal in France since 1975.
	www.nd.edu /~afreddos/courses/180/jpii.htm (1098 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		It is a strange irony that France is poised to celebrate the centenary of the law of December 9, 1905, that separated Church and State at the very moment disorders have been roiling its cities.
		Franceâs high court, the Conseil dâÃtat, has enshrined this key principle: restrictions on faith to promote public order are legitimate, but they must not prevent people from worshiping.
		France is the only European country to proclaim its secular nature in its Constitution, whereas Germanyâs Basic Law refers to God and the Irish Constitution to the Holy Trinity.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=23915 (1189 words)

	H-Net Review: Nicholas Rowe on Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France
		Whether it was by the physical representation of churches and other buildings, by the artistic representation of theater and art, or by the intellectual representation through its role in education, the Church desired ubiquity in French society.
		As it was, the attempts of the Church to control the dissemination of ideas from these hostile spaces revealed the futility of its aspirations.
		The Catholic Church and royal government were committed to extending their power and presence in French society.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2761891631436 (2901 words)

	Catholic church and its relation to the Jews and the Holocaust
		Catholic Church and its relation to the Holocaust and the Jews
		Furthermore, the Catholic Church was not satisfied with the pro-Church policies of the regime and many Catholics were disappointed for not reaching a concordat.
		This official declartion was a sign of remore for the Catholic Church in France due to its largely lack of action during the deportation of the Jews.
	hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu /jpetropoulos/church/catholicchurchanditsrelationtotheJewsandtheholocaust.htm (455 words)

	Roots of the Movement: Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism, and the Catholic Worker Movement
		The Catholic Worker is incomprehensible without an understanding of the influence of the great thought and movements going on in France, and especially the ideas of Mounier.
		The Catholic revival was a response to this crisis of meaning and truth in a particular historical situation, a crisis which required a "revolution,"--always non-violent--in thought and action commensurate with the scale of the crisis.
		Like those gathered around Esprit, the early Catholic Workers were, for the most part, Catholic, but were open to others who shared their commitment to the primacy of the spiritual and to living out the social doctrine of the Church expressed in papal encyclicals.
	www.cjd.org /paper/roots/rmounier.html (3085 words)

	Muslim boom in France: more mosques, fewer churches
		According to the publication, “immigration in France has led to a strong growth in the building of mosques and evangelical places of worship, which has been paralleled by the decrease in Catholic churches.
		France is the country with the greatest number of followers of Islam: 10% of the population,” the article adds.
		There is a need in the revival of Prayer group in every churches not ony France but in the whole world for the renewal and growth of spiritualiy in the life of every christian in order to live in faith and harmony with other growing religions.
	www.catholicnewsagency.com /new.php?n=7990 (1777 words)

	“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both
		Petite Eglise, a non-Papal Catholic Church in France.
		Educated for the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, he found himself unable to receive the recent Vatican Decrees, and for a short time associated himself with the Presbyterian communion, but, at last, by the mercy of God, was led into contact with this branch of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
		They include: the Church of the Precious Blood on County Road C in the township of Gardner, WI which was founded by Vilatte in 1886; the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on 825 N. Webster in Green Bay, WI; the Robinsonville Presbyterian Church on Reiner Road in New Franken, WI.
	www.uwgb.edu /wisfrench/study/old_catholics/old_catholics.htm (5915 words)

	L'EGLISE DE FRANCE : The church in a postreligious age - French catholicism Commonweal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I have been talking with French Catholics, often the same ones, for more than three decades, and they are fighting the same battles and saying (largely) the same things.
		The church's sensitive dealing with immigrants, its genuine openness to other religions, and the bishops' penitence for church inaction in the war have all gone un- or under-reported.
		Finally, Catholicism in France all too often sees the secular press reduce its entire doctrine and witness to the magisterium's stand on mores, moral individualism being the litmus test par excellence for one's "modernity" in France.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_10_128/ai_75445693 (705 words)

	French Revolution Civil Constitution of the Clergy
		On November 2, 1789, Catholic Church property that was held for purposes of church revenue was nationalized, and was used as the backing for the assignats.
		Church lands represented 10-15% of the land in France.
		In May 1791, France recalled its ambassador to the Vatican and the papal nuncio was recalled from Paris.
	www.bonjourlafrance.net /france-facts/france-history/french-revolution-civil-constitution-of-the-clergy.htm (1595 words)

	Views on the Cosmos: France - Religion
		It dealt with the conflict between the orthodox and the persons whom we shall call, as they were called, philosophers, unbelievers, or infidels” (Van Kley 4).
		“The Roman Catholic Church in France before the Revolution was the most powerful organization inside the kingdom, with a physical presence to match” (Aston 3).
		The attack on the Catholic Church was an attack on feudalism.
	courses.wcupa.edu /wanko/LIT400/France/religion.htm (278 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		Joining the news conference were the Ecumenical Officer of the Roman Catholic Church in France, the American Episcopal Bishop of Europe, and a representative of the Baptist Churches of France.
		The Rev. Daniel E. Weiss, immediate past general secretary of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., described the broad spectrum of U.S. churches that are pressing for peaceful alternatives to going to war against Iraq.
		In the meeting with U.S. and French church leaders, de Verdiere stressed that for Europeans, the growth of the European Union is a historical event of great significance--soon to encompass 25 nations--which has been formed with a vision of what a 'world at peace' could be like.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_19798_ENG_Print.html (680 words)

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