Cathorico : le chant du coq catholique

  Une statue de Notre-Dame chargée de deux siècles d’histoire ✝️ Summarium Latine In Missa a Papa Leone XIV die XXVI Septembris MMXXVI in Foro Concordiae Parisiensi celebrata, conspicua fuit statua argentea Beatae Mariae Virginis cum Iesu Infante, quae « Virgo Caroli X » appellatur. Opus anno MDCCCXXVI ab aurifice Odiot confectum est et a rege Carolo X ecclesiae cathedralis Beatae Mariae Parisiensis donatum. Statua ad processiones mariales destinata erat, praesertim ad renovandum votum Ludovici XIII, quo rex anno MDCXXXVIII Galliam Mariae consecravit. Heri Leo XIV iam ante hanc imaginem in ecclesia cathedralis oraverat. Eius praesentia in Foro Concordiae coniunxit historiam monarchicam Franciae, devotionem Marianam, memoriam Beatae Mariae Parisiensis atque hodiernum iter apostolicum Pontificis. Saints du jour : Côme et Damien, soigner gratuitement Le 26 septembre, l’Église fait mémoire des saints Côme et Damien, martyrs des premiers siècles. La tradition les présente comme deux frè...

  Dieu au milieu des casseroles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, born Nicolas Herman in Lorraine around 1614, was neither a priest nor a famous theologian. He spent most of his religious life as a lay Carmelite brother in Paris, working first in the kitchen and later repairing shoes. Yet his simple teaching, learning to live continually in the presence of God, crossed centuries and borders. Pope Leo XIV has openly stated that The Practice of the Presence of God is one of the books that most deeply shaped his spiritual life, alongside the writings of Saint Augustine. On 26 September 2026, Leo XIV visits the Institut Catholique de Paris, built around the former Carmelite convent where Brother Lawrence lived and died. The encounter is therefore more than a historical coincidence: a Pope returns to the place where one of his principal spiritual guides learned to find God in prayer, work and the most ordinary actions of daily life....

  « Une France empreinte de spiritualité » ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Welcoming Pope Leo XIV at the Élysée Palace on 25 September 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech that attempted to articulate France’s Christian heritage with its modern secular republican identity. He openly referred to two thousand years of Christian history, France’s churches and cathedrals, the reconstruction of Notre-Dame, and even the Pope’s French family roots. Yet he also insisted that French secularism is not the negation of religion: believers are free to express their convictions publicly, provided they respect the law. The President then identified several areas where the Republic and the Catholic Church can enter into dialogue without necessarily sharing the same conclusions: peace, migration, social solidarity, ecology, artificial intelligence, education, youth and bioethics. The result was less a religious speech than a definition of how Macron understand...

  D’une papauté installée sur le Rhône au retour du pape à Paris 🇬🇧 English summary The relationship between France and travelling popes has changed radically over seven centuries. In the fourteenth century, the Pope did not simply visit what is now French territory: for nearly seventy years the papal court itself was established at Avignon. After the return to Rome, papal journeys became increasingly rare. The French Revolution even brought Pope Pius VI to France as a prisoner, while Pius VII came voluntarily for Napoleon’s coronation in 1804 before later returning as a captive. Modern papal travel began a completely new era with John Paul II in 1980. Benedict XVI followed him in 2008, while Francis chose three highly specific visits to Strasbourg, Marseille and Corsica without organising a nationwide journey. In September 2026, Leo XIV therefore does more than visit France: he restores the tradition of a genuine apostolic journey addressed to the entire Church in France. ✝️ 25 ...

  Une congrégation née au lendemain de l’esclavage 🇬🇧 English summary Marie-Magdeleine de la Croix, born Aimée Pignolet de Fresnes in Saint-André, La Réunion, in 1810, could become the first native-born Réunionnaise to be beatified and, one day, perhaps canonised. Her cause is particularly significant because her religious work was born immediately after the abolition of slavery on the island. In 1849 she founded the Filles de Marie, establishing a community in which women from formerly opposed racial and social conditions could share the same religious life. More than a century after her death, her congregation remains active across the Indian Ocean and beyond. Her cause therefore raises a larger question: can the Church of La Réunion finally see one of its own daughters officially recognised among the great witnesses of Catholic holiness? ✝️ Saint du jour : saint Silouane Le 24 septembre , l’Église catholique en France propose notamment la mémoire de saint Silouane de l’Athos ,...