Tag: Religion and secularism
Alert on porn deepfakes: “Pedocriminal networks are taking over this practice”
“I just came across something horrible.” In the passenger seat of her friend Marcus’s car, content creator Léna Mahfouf looks, dismayed, at the screen of her phone. The YouTuber with…
Pope’s visit to Marseille: the Vatican faces the slow decline of Catholicism in France
During the last visit of a pope to Marseille, France had on its soil a number of Catholics almost equal to its number of inhabitants. The philosophers of the Enlightenment…
Abaya, reactions from our readers: “No attack on secularism can be accepted”
Africa out of the game Jean-Paul Coupet, Montpellier (Hérault) In 1962, René Dumont warned: “Black Africa is off to a bad start.” Sixty years later, his prognosis is confirmed. I…
Sectarian influence: these signals that must attract attention
Reviewing her files, Christine Destombes grumbles: “Another case where the influence has not been recognized”. This local representative of the National Union of Associations for the Defense of Families and…
In bookstores and on TikTok, the phenomenon of oracles
Small, large, purplish, iridescent. “Nature”, “queer”, “sacred feminine”. In the window of the esoteric bookshop Bussière, and almost everywhere in these few tens of square meters in bazaar nestled in…
In the United States, the sidelining of an academic who showed images of Muhammad is controversial
Can we still show Muhammad in American universities? This is the question that agitates the United States, after Erika López Prater, an academic specializing in the history of art at…
“Benedict XVI spoke to Catholics, Francis to Christians”: the strange cohabitation of the two popes
The scene is pure fiction but it says a lot about imaginations. In the movie The Two Popes, released in 2019, three times nominated for the Oscars, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio,…
Benedict XVI: the reason of the theologian, by Jean-Luc Marion
The figure of Joseph Ratzinger was blurred for a long time by political polemics (“conservative”, “Bavarian”) and covered up by his functions in the visible Church (prefect of the Congregation…
Death of Benedict XVI: “This conservative pope caused a revolution in the Church by resigning”
A brilliant theologian with a very conservative reputation, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died this Saturday, December 31, at the age of 95, in the monastery in the Vatican gardens where…
Former Pope Benedict XVI is dead
Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced this Saturday, December 31. Pope Francis said on Wednesday that his predecessor was “seriously ill” and called for prayers…