Priest of the "Benedict XVI generation"
Dear Father, It is with great pleasure that I bid you farewell. Not that I am happy that you are leaving the Notre-Dame du Lys chapel, but...
Category: Religion
Newman and Socrates
The links between ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity are numerous. The most famous of the Greek precepts: Gnothi Seauton, "Know thyself,"...
Emotion at Notre-Dame du Lys
A truly beautiful emotion was felt by all the faithful of Notre-Dame du Lys this morning at the 11:15 am Holy Mass. A delegation...
Original fault
Despite Shûsaku Endo's doubts about the true Christianity of the Japanese, as expressed in the admirable "Silence," it also seems to me that Japona...
Forgive me, something will always remain…
In this brief reflection on forgiveness, I simply wanted to revisit the inadequacy of saying "sorry." Forgiving is sometimes extremely difficult...
What kind of death for the West?
It is becoming increasingly pleasant for me to hear these speeches from Westerners reveling in the death of Catholicism, the death of this old...
Tribute to Jean-Marie Domenach
Rereading notes I took years ago while reading Jean-Marie Domenach's *The Return of the Tragic*, I remember our meeting. I see him...
God's path leads through our humanity…
An extraordinary passage from Blessed Cardinal Newman: By sinning, by suffering, by correcting ourselves, by improving ourselves, we advance towards the truth...
The Breath of Tibhirine
It's an intelligent film. And by saying that, much has already been said. In an era where stupidity reigns supreme, making an intelligent film about...
Philia, agape and other little things…
The Greeks used three words to designate love: eros, carnal love; philia, friendship; and agape, amorous love.
What Mr. Ouine says in our time…
Monsieur Ouine, one of the greatest French novels of the 20th century, offers many answers to the modern world as it is. The few quotes that...
Notes on the History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's *Histoire du catholicisme* (chapter 9: The Shock of Modernity (mid-18th century – 1870), p. 394. The ritual of touching...
Father de Smet
There are some incredible stories. Pierre Jean Smet's is one of them. While chatting with my friend JB from C. the other evening, always with the same joy, I...
The secular and modern world
There's the beautiful Italian word "vergogna," and there's the French word, emptied of its meaning in modern times, "shame." Who hasn't found themselves in the middle of...