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Matthieu Rougé: “It is not a question of clericalizing the electoral deadlines but of nourishing discernment”

2022-01-18T17:07:29.127Z


INTERVIEW - Mgr Matthieu Rougé, Bishop of Nanterre, is one of the French bishops who knows the political world best. He participated in the drafting of the episcopal document on the elections of 2022.


LE FIGARO.

- Why don't you give any voting instructions and won't give any, even between the two rounds?

Bishop Matthieu Rouge.

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Our mission as bishops is to nourish the discernment in conscience of Catholics and not to replace it.

It is not a question of confessionalizing the electoral deadlines nor of clericalizing them but of explaining the most decisive stakes.

We address ourselves not only to Catholics but also to candidates as well as to all of our fellow citizens.

You were reproached, in 2017, for a silence on the theses of the extreme right.

You unearth this time your electoral recommendations of 2007 which militated against any

"exclusion".

This is

the “main requirement”

of our 2022

“electoral choices”

, you write.

Is the migration question your number one criterion of choice?

The concern for the brother is a fundamental and very broad attitude which includes both the effective choice to live in society, on which we open our reflection, and respect...

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