Guillaume Cuchet also published
How Our World Ceased to Be Christian
(2018), in which he studied the collapse of the practice of faith in the mid-1960s.
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THE FIGARO MAGAZINE. - After having analyzed the phenomenon of the rupture of Catholicism in French society in the 1960s and 1970s, you focus instead on the current situation. What is the state of play of French Catholicism in 2021?
Guillaume CUCHET.
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Vast question!
The situation is difficult.
To recent events - the sexual abuse crisis, religious consequences of the Covid,
motu proprio
on the Tridentine mass - is added a deeper unease linked to the transformations of French Catholicism over the past fifty or sixty years.
He is going through a spectacular change of format, which is not the first in his history but which poses a whole series of new problems for him,
ad intra
(in the image he has of himself) and
ad extra
(in its relations with society).
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