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These men or women of the Church who are also teachers in the public

2022-10-03T17:20:06.740Z


INVESTIGATION – Committed to the service of their Church, Michel Deneken, Jean-Baptiste Desquilbet, Isabelle and Stéphane are also teachers in public education. At a time when secularism and school make a sensitive household, they tell how they live this "double hat" on a daily basis.


When she left for the high school in the Paris suburbs where she taught, Isabelle replaced the large cross she usually wears around her neck with a discreet Taizé cross, in the shape of a dove, slipped under her clothes so that she be invisible to the eyes of his students.

“I like to feel it against my skin because it reminds me that I have to behave as a Christian and a consecrated virgin in my teaching.

But I strictly respect the principle of neutrality of state officials.

This neutrality, I live it thoroughly, I am attached to it!

To those who fear that their children will be indoctrinated, I want to say: “Come listen to me in my class”.

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Since her consecration in 2016, Isabelle, now 37 years old, has combined her job as an associate professor of French in public education with her vocation as a consecrated virgin,

"a life of chastity and prayer which marks a preferential love for Christ, in obedience to the bishop of his diocese"

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