Amid the tumultuous news of a papal resignation, here is a reminder of the permanent things: Peter Hitchens’s luminous meditation on a pilgrimage to the Chartres Cathedral. Excerpts: The ...

You would expect me to say that my favorite church, aesthetically, is Our Lady’s cathedral at Chartres, and you would be right, more or less. But that’s too easy. Same with the Hagia Sophia ...

Another top Rick Steves pick is Chartres in Lights, a city-wide sound and light show in which the cathedral's facade and other historic buildings and bridges around town are spectacularly ...

With the exception of the Romanesque lancets of the west facade and the window of Notre-Dame de la Belle Verrière reset in the south choir, most of the glazing of the 176 windows was accomplished ...

Roche, who has made a name for himself with his work on iconic religious sites like Chartres cathedral in recent years, is ...