Notre Dame president tests positive for coronavirus

Holy Cross Fr John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer, said the school’s vice president for public affairs and communications announced that Fr Jenkins was tested for Covid-19 when he learned that a colleague had tested positive. He is now ‘entering an... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Notre Dame Uni suspends in-person classes after coronavirus increase

The University of Notre Dame has announced that it is suspending its in-person classes for undergraduates for two weeks after a rise in Covid-19 cases on its campus in South Bend, Indiana. “The virus is a formidable foe,” said the university’s president, Holy Cross Fr John Jenkins, in announcing the change to students in a... Read More

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July 28, 2020

French police arrest cathedral volunteer who confesses to Nantes fire

A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city’s Gothic cathedral. French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two fires in the area of a 17th-century organ and a third above an electrical panel in the Cathedral of... Read More

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July 21, 2020

French police suspect arson was cause of fire at Nantes cathedral

French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes. The blaze broke out in three places in the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul on 18th July. Although more than 100 firefighters contained the blaze within two hours and stopped it from spreading to the main body of the... Read More

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April 16, 2020

Paris archbishop welcomes Macron’s renewed pledge to rebuild Notre Dame

Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris welcomed a renewed pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral. “I can’t speak for all humanity, but this is certainly a moment of global emotion and witness,” Archbishop Aupetit told Radio Notre Dame on 15th April, one year after a fire destroyed part of the historic... Read More

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April 15, 2020

Notre Dame Cathedral restoration halted by coronavirus one year after blaze

The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral has been halted by the coronavirus crisis a year after fire gutted its interior and toppled its spire. Some scaffolding that was erected for an earlier renovation project melted in the blaze on 15th April 2019. The unstable scaffolding further endangers the cathedral. The restoration of the landmark from... Read More

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