The French general overseeing the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark remains in a precarious and unsafe state, more than nine months after it went up in flames.
• Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, rector of the fire-ravaged, under-repair Notre Dame Cathedral, celebrated a pandemic-limited Christmas Eve Mass at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church in Paris, saying "Christmas is hope. We have to continue to fight, to reach the point where we can try to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
Worshipers in face masks filed into Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois Church across from the Louvre Museum on Friday for Christmas Eve Mass, and were greeted by the rector of the closed Notre Dame Cathedral.
Worshipers in face masks filed into Saint-Germain-l Auxerrois Church across from the Louvre Museum on Friday for Christmas Eve Mass, and were greeted by the rector of the closed Notre Dame Cathedral.