The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

The French Revolution opposed the Church ... of which must be grasped as completely as possible,” says the final document of this year’s Synod on Synodality. “For discernment to be truly ...

He argued that the rule keeping many government documents under wraps violated the public right of access to official archives - a right dating back to the 1789 French Revolution. He said he is ...