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Christophe Dickès: “Why take away from the traditionalists what John-Paul II and Benedict XVI had granted?”

2023-02-22T18:50:31.311Z


TRIBUNE - While Pope Francis is drastically reducing the freedom of traditionalists, historian Christophe Dickès recalls the richness and fertility of these minorities within the Catholic Church.


Author of numerous works, Christophe Dickès has notably published:

“Saint Pierre”

(Éd. Perrin, 2021), which received the François Millepierres prize from the French Academy in 2022.

Lent for traditional Catholics begins with sorrow.

In charge of liturgical questions at the Vatican, Cardinal Roche who, in fact, has never hidden his opposition to the work of Benedict XVI, has just published a new text validated by Pope Francis on the practice of the ancient rite.

Contrary to the very spirit that the pope wished to give to his pontificate, he drastically reduced the freedom of the bishops and their autonomy in the matter.

But who are these traditionalist Catholics?

On the scale of the Church of France, they are among the few regular practitioners.

That is less than 4% of French Catholics.

They are therefore a minority of a minority.

They catechize their children by teaching them the ten commandments and the prayers that Catholics must know.

In this regard, they...

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Source: lefigaro

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