The quarrel over mass has animated French political life in recent weeks.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of the media presented it as an emergence in the heart of the public space of a "reactionary" Catholicism, defying both the laws of the Republic and health security.
Mass would be a whim of bigots and old gentlemen in Loden.
Even more: these compulsive kneeling men would herald the return of "fundamentalism" and would be no better than the Islamists occupying the public space to offer street prayers.
For once, the slogan no amalgamation could have served well.
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It is perhaps necessary to approach this mobilization differently in order to understand it.
The current health crisis has forced societies to redefine what they consider essential.
What needs of the human soul are considered fundamental.
What to do with the spiritual aspirations that cross it?
Can existence really be put in a jar, reducing itself to a simple
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