Bitterness reigns among French Catholics.
However, they celebrate All Saints' Day this Sunday.
That is to say the feast of "all saints".
All those on the calendar of the year and all those not listed.
Either a huge and major celebration of Catholicism.
And they will pray, the next day, for all the dead, according to an old tradition launched by the abbey of Cluny, around the year 1000.
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But if they look behind them, it is the terror which dominates, with the triple assassination, Thursday, with a knife, of Catholics in the basilica of Nice by an Islamist.
And if they look ahead, it is the ban on masses, from Monday, which could well last until Christmas.
And maybe beyond.
Hope, the virtue of Christianity, is there.
But morale is not there.
Alain Cérisola is a permanent deacon of the diocese of Toulouse.
This 73-year-old retired executive is at the service of the parish of Balma, the eastern suburbs of Toulouse:
“Thursday evening, we organized a prayer vigil.
Because this violence
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