The Pope pleads to welcome visitors “free of charge” into Notre Dame
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Pope Francis asked for the "generous and free reception" of the "huge crowd" of visitors expected at Notre-Dame Cathedral, in the message read on Saturday evening, at the reopening of the French monument, according to AFP, quoted by News.ro. "Notre Dame will be in...
Pope Francis decided not to make the trip to the Parisian capital for the grand reopening of Notre Dame. However, the sovereign Pontiff wanted to send a message to the crowd gathered on the evening of December 7, notes Le Figaro. “Our Lady will soon be visited and admired again by an immense crowd of people of all conditions, origins, religions, religions, languages and cultures, many of them in search of the absolute and meaning of their lives,…
Pope Francis expressed his wish this Saturday, in a message read during the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, that this new stage "may constitute a prophetic sign of the renewal of the Church in France." The high pontiff also expressed his hope that the old cathedral of more than 860 years will continue to welcome "generous and free" visitors, before the plans evoked in French cultural governmental circles to charge an entrance.
The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati had caused an uproar by offering to charge for the entrance to the cathedral, which 62% of French people would also be opposed to.
Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, had proposed in the columns of Le Figaro to charge the entrance to the cathedral in order to finance the restoration of religious buildings.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis observed the "majesty of the building possetiocima" renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and free visits to the new, at the behest of Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich.
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