Author, in particular, of "How our world has ceased to be Christian" (Seuil, coll. "The color of ideas", 2018), which has been a great critical success. Last book published: "Does Catholicism still have a future in France?" (Threshold, 2021).
Bursting repeatedly at the bottom of practice curves like a string of incendiary bombs, revelations about sexual abuse in the Church may well end up wiping out what's left of Catholicism in France, starting with its priestly recruitment.
There entered, it is said, this year at the seminary of Paris one and only candidate, the last of the Mohicans, a tragic and derisory hero at the same time.
There is something appalling about the show.
As a historian, I confess that I do not regret being there.
Since the time that the "death" of Catholicism in this country has been announced, who could have guessed that the coup de grace would come from within and that it would end in abjection.
As a Frenchman and as a Catholic, on the other hand, I deplore it because…
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