Catholic church condemns idea of charging entrance fee when rebuilt cathedral reopens in December after five years
has become embroiled in an escalating row over whether to charge future visitors a fee to enter the 12th-century gothic masterpiece.
The scheme could raise up to €75m a year, which would be “completely dedicated to a grand preservation plan for France’s religious heritage”, she said. “Notre Dame would save all the churches of France. It would be a magnificent symbol.”that if “€5 can save France’s religious heritage, that’s a good thing, whether one believes in heaven or not: quite simply, this is our landscape.”
Churches and cathedrals must be able to “welcome all, unconditionally – thus necessarily free of charge – regardless of religion, belief, opinions and financial means”, the diocese of Notre DameIt added that given Notre Dame’s design, establishing a system that distinguished between tourists and people coming to the cathedral for private prayer would be “extremely complicated in terms of its practicalities”.
Since the 1905 law is not part of the French constitution, some legal experts have suggested the government, if it was really determined, could simply rewrite it. Either way, said Ariel Weil, the mayor of central
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