The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

Thy Kingdom Come - City after city surrendered to Joan of Arc without a fight. Her mission was complete... or was it?

“a charism that sees the sanctity of life as supreme and offers the consecrated lives of their members as an oblation to end the greatest evil of our time and to help women embrace their vocation as ...

Joan of Arc was as religious as a person can get without turning into a stained-glass window. When she was just 13 she claimed to have been visited by three saints – Michael, Catherine and Margaret.

The original stone statue of Joan of Arc is on display in City Hall, while a bronze version will remain outside the former ...

It contains one of cinema’s fleshiest kisses, but also a moment of pure spiritual transcendence. And it’s the interdependence of these elements that makes Carl Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet – which is ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and ...

Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.

The National Rally, though having expelled him in 2015, hailed Le Pen in a statement, saying he had defended “the idea of French greatness with all his soul and at the risk of his own life.” ...

We may be in the New Year, but James Bovard is not ready to put the craziness of 2024 in his rearview mirror. Here are some ...