Cathorico : le chant du coq catholique

  Et si Pie XII avait vu juste dès 1944 ? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary On 3 May 1944, while France was still occupied, Pope Pius XII proclaimed Saint Thérèse of Lisieux a secondary patroness of France alongside Saint Joan of Arc , under the principal patronage of Our Lady of the Assumption. The choice was not merely devotional. Pius XII explicitly linked Thérèse’s patronage of France to her role as patroness of the missions , describing the country itself, devastated by war both materially and spiritually, as a field in need of missionary cultivation. More than eighty years later, the words sound unexpectedly contemporary. France is far more secularised, yet adult baptisms are rising sharply and a new generation is rediscovering Christianity. Perhaps Thérèse’s mission for France is not finished. Perhaps it is only becoming fully understandable now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Le 1er octobre, la France fête aussi l’une de ses patronnes Le 1er octobre , l’Égli...

Du 30 septembre au 4 octobre, prêtres et laïcs venus de communautés françaises dispersées dans le monde se retrouvent autour d’une question très concrète : comment faire Église lorsqu’on vit loin de son pays, de sa langue et parfois de ses habitudes catholiques ? English summary From 30 September to 4 October 2026, French-speaking Catholic communities from around the world are gathering in Barcelona for their annual pastoral meeting. Under the theme “Building a community”, priests and lay leaders will reflect on belonging, mission, fraternity and the challenges faced by Catholics living abroad. The gathering illustrates a less visible side of French Catholicism: communities that remain connected to the Church in France while learning to live within different cultures and local Churches. Bienheureux Jean-Nicolas Cordier : un prêtre français mort sur les pontons Le 30 septembre, le calendrier universel célèbre saint Jérôme, traducteur de la Bible et docteur de l’Église. Mais le martyrolo...

  Du portrait express aux textes du pape ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Barely sixteen months after the election of Leo XIV, French-language readers already have a surprisingly rich selection of books about the new Pope. The first biographies appeared within days of his election in May 2025 and understandably focused on explaining who Robert Francis Prevost was. Later works benefited from more time, testimony and, in some cases, direct access to the Pope. Other books now allow readers to move beyond biography and discover Leo XIV through his own preaching, speeches and even his 1985 doctoral thesis on authority in the Augustinian Order. The French publishing landscape therefore reflects a rapid evolution: from the urgent question “Who is Leo XIV?” to a more substantial one, “What does Leo XIV actually think?” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Un pape élu le 8 mai, un livre déjà en librairie le 14 L’édition religieuse française n’aura pas perdu de temps. Robert Francis...

La ferveur passée, commence le travail ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Pope Leo XIV’s four-day apostolic journey to France produced extraordinary crowds, strong images and several important pastoral signals. Around 80,000 young people filled the Stade de France, approximately 800,000 attended the Paris Mass, some 150,000 gathered in Lourdes and 35,000 welcomed the Pope in Metz. Yet the real significance of the visit will not be measured by attendance figures. Leo XIV challenged the French Church to become more missionary, to welcome the growing number of catechumens, to address abuse with truth and reparation, to defend human dignity in public debate and to remain open to the poor, migrants and those searching for meaning. The Pope has now returned to Rome. The central question begins: can the exceptional fervour of September 2026 become a lasting renewal of Catholic life in France? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✝️ 29 septembre : Michel, Gabriel et Raphaël Le lendemain...