Why I write
A simple phrase is enough to shake one's inner life: "Why do I write?" A certainty takes shape, paradoxical and burning: writing is pointless...
Category: Modern World
What is the purpose of tradition?
Tradition demands constant conversion. It's no easy task! Tradition requires a relentless effort. And even the most important...
The froth of lives
Can we still take refuge in our inner life, behave as rebels against this world that loves nothing but externality and its procession of emotions pushed to their limits...?.
The family's tasks
Why do we think it's easy to have a family? We think it's easy what is natural. Yet, the sense of what is natural has evaporated by forgetting its law. And so it is...
The gold digger
One day, his only desire, he fulfilled it effortlessly each day. He would get up and mentally count the time it took him to do it. He counted the time...
An outline on authority, or a definition of the progressive.
Following the article, "Why this hatred of authority?", I received numerous reactions. The first consisted of confusion, or of asking me not to...
Exile, migrants and the Holy Father (2)
Reflections on the Holy Father's various statements concerning migrants: The migrants arriving in Europe today are not all fleeing a catastrophic situation...
Why this hatred of authority?
Authority resembles those secret agents so dear to Graham Greene, who conceal their identity to avoid losing it further in a bad encounter. It...
Argentina wins against globalism
Never has a World Cup started so badly. Awarded to Qatar, with Zinedine Zidane as its ambassador, in an atmosphere rife with suspicion of corruption. Everything has...
Father Garrigou-Lagrange on the subject of the enemies of the Church!
The Church is uncompromising on principles, because it believes, and tolerant in practice, because it loves. The enemies of the Church are, on the contrary...
Of authority
In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves through the eyes of their family, their loved ones, their community. Women reserved themselves...
Gregorian chant
It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the symposium "Music in the Church Today." Maurice Fleuret—may he rest in peace...
The sacrifice of the chief
“Who is like God?”(1), the book by Lieutenant General Pierre Gillet, exhaustively inventories the qualities of a leader and outlines the….
Prayer to the Souls in Purgatory by Father André Haussaire
O Jesus, to Your Heart I entrust (whom I desire: for example, "the victims of the virus"). Look upon (him/her/them) and then do what Your Heart tells You. Let...