Notre Dame in a Secular Age
Will the Fifth Republic be worthy of the cathedral it has resurrected from the flames?

The reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris five years after a fire spotlights the glories of Europe at a moment when the continent appears intent on showcasing its worst. President Macron calls the restoration “a human adventure of epic proportions,” and it is difficult not to feel a sense of awe toward God and man for the revival of this place of prayer, whose cornerstone was first laid in 1163 of the common era.
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