Professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Est Créteil, Guillaume Cuchet is the author of a very remarkable book: “How our world ceased to be Christian. Anatomy of a collapse ”(Seuil, 2018). At the start of the school year, he published a new essay: "Does Catholicism still have a future in France?" (Threshold).
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On Tuesday July 26, 2016, Father Jacques Hamel was assassinated in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray at the end of his morning mass by two young French jihadists guided by Daesh.
The event had a worldwide impact because he was the first priest to be killed in this way in Europe.
The emotion was general, including among many Muslims, so strong was the feeling of transgression and sacrilege.
On the modest panel which recounts the events in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray reopened for worship, Guy Coponet, who attended Father Hamel's mass and who was slain like him, but survived, declares:
" I believe that if
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