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Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral engulfed by fire
Reuters,MSN ^ | 4/15/2019 | not listed

Posted on 04/15/2019 11:15:06 AM PDT by sodpoodle

PARIS, April 15 (Reuters) - Notre-Dame Cathedral went up in flames on Monday in a roaring blaze that devasted the Parisian landmark, one of France's most visited places.

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Flames burst through the roof of the centuries-old cathedral and quickly engulfed the spire, which collapsed.

A huge plume of smoke wafted across the city and ash fell over a large area.

Firefighters cleared the area around the cathedral, which marks the very center of Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron canceled an address to the nation that he had been due to give later on Monday evening. A presidential official said Macron was to go to the scene of the blaze.

"A terrible fire is under way at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris," Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Twitter.

France 2 television reported that police were treating the incident as an accident.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; france; koranimals; notredame; notredameburning; notredamecathedral; notredamefire; paris; shocking
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To: RicocheT

I don't think we could even make such a thing anymore. We are not at that level of multi-generation-spanning Faith. It does not just require money, technology, resources. It requires a civilization.

161 posted on 04/15/2019 1:11:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The pity and indignation.)
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To: Captain Rhino

Deliberately setting fire to Notre Dame would be such a provocation.
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Which is why the renovations are the only answer we will get, regardless of the truth.


162 posted on 04/15/2019 1:12:16 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Amen.


163 posted on 04/15/2019 1:13:03 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Just sayin’......Renovation doesn’t mean it couldn’t be terrorism. How carefully do they vet workers and who’s coming and going as part of the work?


164 posted on 04/15/2019 1:14:19 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: elcid1970
Cologne Cathedral was nearly untouched

Not exactly. The cathedral was struck by 14 high explosive bombs and a larger number of incendiaries. The repair efforts continued until 1956. The cathedral was not a target, but the bahnof, the rail roads and the bridges over the Rhine definitely were and avoiding the cathedral was impossible.

165 posted on 04/15/2019 1:19:35 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Alberta's Child

1. When was the last time there was a Latin Mass in that cathedral?

According to Pilgrim-info, there is Mass at 8am, 9am and at the main alter at noon, and an evening Mass at 6:15pm. For Good Friday/Easter Sunday, it’s super big deal Mass.

https://www.pilgrim-info.com/cathedral-notre-dame-de-paris/


166 posted on 04/15/2019 1:19:35 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: arthurus

Thanks for the addition of old fashion common sense.


167 posted on 04/15/2019 1:19:38 PM PDT by JonPreston ( The GOPe is on board with the North American Union and the European Union.)
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To: Covenantor; RicocheT
Related thread when the equally ancient and wondrously beautiful Sainte-Denis was vandalized in France just one month ago. Some good photos there of the much loved Basilica "as it was."

Sainte-Denis

168 posted on 04/15/2019 1:20:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The pity and indignation.)
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To: sodpoodle

Kind of symbolic of the demise of Western civilization.


169 posted on 04/15/2019 1:21:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: sodpoodle

There they go, again.
Always attempting to erase the heritage of civilizations, in every case but their own.

For a peaceful religion, a good many persons must die or be threatened in order for it to bloom.


170 posted on 04/15/2019 1:23:08 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: IronJack

The roots of Western Civilization are being chopped away. The exact nihilism Moose Limbs demand.


171 posted on 04/15/2019 1:23:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: blueplum

This is looking very suspicious though. They busted terrorists from 3 years ago who were looking to destroy it, and I read some other churches were attacked in the past few months, and this happens so close to Easter? Plus it’s been raining in Paris..But what’s the point whether it’s a terror attack or not? If it is absolutely nothing will be done about it. It will be business as usual in France. They’ll hold a vigil, John Kerry will get James Taylor to sing a lullaby and France will do absolutely nothing about their Islamo Nazi invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/cell-of-french-women-radicalised-by-isis-behind-failed-notre-dame-attack


172 posted on 04/15/2019 1:23:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: TigerClaws

It is ISLAMIC JIHAD during Holy Week!


173 posted on 04/15/2019 1:27:04 PM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: mlo
It is not obviously anything. It may be terrorism, it may not. Time will tell.

Actually time will never tell. These European leaders are so entrenched in Muslim appeasement they will cover up any terrorist attack in fear of a bloodbath in the streets. The Bloody Revolution of 1789 showed Parisians had a lust for it, but they have been cowed in the past 230 years.

174 posted on 04/15/2019 1:29:14 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I so agree with your assessment. The civilization to even honor such an edifice is no longer active and healthy. Is limb is oozing into the void where faith has been abandoned.
175 posted on 04/15/2019 1:29:59 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RedMonqey

The world will make a point of rebuilding it. Art, windows and relics of saints will be lost, but Faith will persevere.

Now, if I were France, the first thing I’d do is erect a spire, as high as the original one. Standing alone if need be, lit up like a Christmas Tree, but over the skyline all the same. Just in case somebodys need something to remind them something happened. Then rebuild the church.


176 posted on 04/15/2019 1:30:10 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: higgmeister

Some people may have done something.


177 posted on 04/15/2019 1:30:25 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“...Rupert Murdoch...a pox on all of them...”

All of those “panels” are not news - they are thinly disguised conduits for the lefty talking points.


178 posted on 04/15/2019 1:36:53 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Rebelbase

“...UNESCO ... Cathedral rebuilt...”

It can’t happen unless we raise the medieval guilds from the dead. The stained glass alone could never ever be replicated.


179 posted on 04/15/2019 1:39:06 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I understand (via Hannity about 30min ago) the the women that posed as a man in recruiting those other three was sentenced on Friday


180 posted on 04/15/2019 1:50:29 PM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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