Cathorico : le chant du coq catholique

  Au lendemain d’une lettre de la CEF aux jeunes et d’un nouveau texte romain sur la transmission de la foi, l’Église de France se retrouve devant le même constat : il ne suffit plus d’hériter, il faut recommencer à transmettre English summary French Catholicism faces a double challenge on 23 October 2026. The French Bishops’ Conference has addressed young Catholics after weeks of student protests and violence, urging them to engage without hatred and recalling Pope Leo XIV’s words: “You are the saints of France.” On the same day, the Vatican published Venite ad me , a major document acknowledging that the intergenerational transmission of faith has broken down in many secularised societies. Together, both texts point towards a Church that can no longer rely on inherited Catholic culture and must rediscover personal witness, community and the proclamation of the Gospel. « Vous êtes les saints de France » Trois semaines après la grande veillée du Stade de France avec Léon XIV, la Co...

Le 22 octobre, fête de saint Jean-Paul II, ramène cette année à un anniversaire français : quarante ans après Lyon, Ars, Paray-le-Monial et Annecy, une autre génération vient d’accueillir Léon XIV English summary On 22 October, the Church celebrates Saint John Paul II . In France, the date has a particular resonance in 2026: forty years have passed since his apostolic journey to Lyon , Ars , Paray-le-Monial and Annecy in October 1986 . That visit combined popular gatherings, Christian heritage, ecumenism and the beatification of Antoine Chevrier . Only weeks ago, Pope Leo XIV visited a France profoundly changed by secularisation , yet still capable of gathering immense crowds. Comparing the two journeys reveals not the disappearance of French Catholicism, but a transformation in the way faith is transmitted and publicly expressed. Quarante ans entre deux voyages La mémoire liturgique de saint Jean-Paul II est fixée au 22 octobre , date de l’inauguration solennelle de son pontificat e...

  De l’intelligence artificielle aux violences parisiennes, l’actualité oblige les catholiques français à revenir à une même question : quelle place donner à la dignité humaine ? English summary On 21 October 2026, French Catholic news brings together seemingly different questions: artificial intelligence , recent urban violence and the memory of Saint Céline , mother of Saint Remigius. Yet all three point towards a common concern: the dignity of the human person, the responsibility attached to freedom and the transmission of a Christian vision of society. After Pope Leo XIV ’s Magnifica Humanitas , the French Church is now trying to translate principles into concrete choices. Sainte du jour : Céline, avant saint Remi et Clovis Le 21 octobre offre aussi une mémoire beaucoup plus ancienne. Sainte Céline , mère de saint Remi, appartient au christianisme de la Gaule du Ve siècle. Née dans le Laonnois, elle est surtout passée à la postérité à travers son fils, futur évêque de Reims et ...

  Cent ans après sa béatification, Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld revient au cœur de la cathédrale qu’il dirigeait avant les massacres de Septembre English summary On 17 October 2026, the Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes marks the centenary of the beatification of Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld, Bishop of Saintes and victim of the September Massacres of 1792. His memory offers a specifically French reflection on martyrdom, Revolution and the place of Catholic remembrance in national history. Cent ans jour pour jour Le 17 octobre 1926, Pie XI béatifiait 191 victimes des massacres de Septembre 1792. Parmi elles figurait Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld, évêque de Saintes, mort à Paris dans la prison des Carmes avec son frère François-Joseph, évêque de Beauvais. Cent ans plus tard, Saintes lui rend hommage dans sa cathédrale. Ce samedi, une conférence revient sur sa vie avant une intervention de Mgr Hervé Gosselin consacrée au sens du martyre chrétien aujourd’hui. Une messe est ...

  Marguerite-Marie fêtée à Paray-le-Monial, naissance traditionnelle du Mont-Saint-Michel en 709 et mémoire de Marie-Antoinette à Saint-Denis : rarement une date rassemble autant de fils de l’histoire catholique française English summary The date of 16 October occupies a remarkable place in French Catholic memory. The Church celebrates Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, whose visions at Paray-le-Monial profoundly shaped devotion to the Sacred Heart. Tradition also places the dedication of the first sanctuary on Mont-Saint-Michel on 16 October 709. Finally, 16 October marks the execution of Queen Marie-Antoinette in 1793, still commemorated today by memorial Masses in Paris and at the royal basilica of Saint-Denis. These three memories reveal very different but enduring relationships between Catholic faith, French history and national heritage. Le 16 octobre commence à Paray-le-Monial Ce vendredi, l’Église célèbre sainte Marguerite-Marie Alacoque , morte à Paray-le-Monial en 1690. Religi...

Moins administrer, davantage compter sur elles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Ten years after Amoris laetitia , the Catholic Church is reassessing its pastoral approach to marriage and family life. During a major Vatican meeting convened by Pope Leo XIV from 7 to 14 October 2026, France was represented in the discussions by Véronique Longchamp, national delegate for family pastoral care at the French Bishops’ Conference. Her message was clear: Christian families should no longer be considered merely recipients of pastoral programmes, but active participants in the Church’s mission. Among the proposals emerging from the French experience are greater involvement of married couples in marriage preparation, diversified support for young couples, diocesan “family houses”, stronger assistance for parents and a role for experienced couples in accompanying separated, divorced or remarried people. The challenge for the French Church is therefore not simply to defend the famil...