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Priest: “Sign of contradiction”

2023-04-09T18:28:29.142Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Étienne de Montety. In the eyes of our contemporaries, what is a priest in 2023? The man of an institution who, if he knows his course, seeks his way and his way of being in the modern society, both fragmented and ultra-connected, of this beginning of the millennium. A man whose life never ceases to amaze them, especially if he is young. The priest is single and lives modestly in an age that has deified sexuality an


In the eyes of our contemporaries, what is a priest in 2023?

The man of an institution who, if he knows his course, seeks his way and his way of being in the modern society, both fragmented and ultra-connected, of this beginning of the millennium.

A man whose life never ceases to amaze them, especially if he is young.

The priest is single and lives modestly in an age that has deified sexuality and let money reign supreme.

He is apparently a servant of the useless, in a society that idolizes success and efficiency.

Of course, the men and women of our time advocate “values”, a morality emerges, but it carries another, more ardent fire.

He does not preach happiness for here below, even less well-being like an influencer based in Dubai.

The Good News that he is responsible for announcing is hardly “instagrammable”: it speaks of death, this reality that our contemporaries hate because it sends them back to their finitude, it has…

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Source: lefigaro

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