The most popular preacher in Paris is Jesuit Father Michel Riquet. "The French are better Christians today than they used to be," says Père Riquet. "There are more of them; they pray more and go more often to church."
Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lenteven when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching.
Three years ago Père Riquet preached to his first large...
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