Dear friends of Our Lady of Paris: At first I thought it was just me, bursting into tears when I heard the news and saw Notre Dame de Paris going up in flames. It made sense considering my personal history; I was baptized in a gothic cathedral and walked past it to go to school four times a day every day of the week for a couple of decades. Like most of people of my culture and generation, we attended weekly mass, weddings, funerals there. Our home sat right across from a cloister, in the center of a medieval town … Continue reading →