Pope to skip Notre Dame opening for Corsica visit
French President Emmanuel Macron had invited the 87-year-old pontiff to attend the Notre Dame reopening ceremony in Paris on December 7. But Francis declined and instead will head to Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, for a conference on the Catholic faith in the Mediterranean, the Vatican said. "The star of the Notre Dame reopening ceremony is Notre Dame itself," the head of the Bishops' Conference of France (CEF) Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said. The pope had not wanted his presence to be a distraction from the essential point of the occasion... Читать дальше...