Posts Tagged ‘prayer for France’

Bishops revive 17th-century prayer for France

Friday, August 10th, 2012

The Catholic bishops of France are reviving a 17th-century custom by asking the faithful to pray for their country on August 15 as a new government plans to legalise same-sex marriage and possibly euthanasia. The custom began with King Louis XIII, who first ordered a “prayer for France” in all churches on the feast of Read more