Parisians knelt to pray, even as the flames rose
At his blog, William Newton reflected on the scenes in Paris after the fire broke out. “Hundreds of Parisian Catholics, many of them young people, were kneeling together on the streets around the burning Cathedral for hours.”
To some, it was a baffling sight: “Like the Ancient Romans commenting on the way that the Early Christians went to their deaths in the Colosseum, the secular media had no idea how to process the sight of people praying the rosary and singing hymns to the Mother of God, even as the most famous building in the world dedicated to her was being reduced to ashes.” Such is the incomprehensibility of the Faith – “foolishness to Gentiles”, as St Paul wrote.
