Comments on: What’s said and unsaid in French pre-visit pope cover http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/ Religion, faith and ethics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ADF Alliance Alert » What’s said and unsaid in French pre-visit pope coverage http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5935 ADF Alliance Alert » What’s said and unsaid in French pre-visit pope coverage Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:47:35 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5935 [...] Heneghan, commenting at Reuters’ FaithWorld blog on secular France’s modified anticipation of Pope [...] [...] Heneghan, commenting at Reuters’ FaithWorld blog on secular France’s modified anticipation of Pope [...]

]]> By: jane http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5919 jane Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:32:03 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5919 Thanks for posting this I shall have to try and get hold of the Canard on my way back to France after a long weekend in Bern. I actually wonder whether laicité hasn't become a bit of a religion in itself in France Thanks for posting this I shall have to try and get hold of the Canard on my way back to France after a long weekend in Bern.
I actually wonder whether laicité hasn’t become a bit of a religion in itself in France

]]> By: Luc Bomel http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5917 Luc Bomel Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:54:05 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/09/10/whats-said-and-unsaid-in-french-pre-visit-pope-cover/#comment-5917 I am French and Catholic and I have felt much closer to my faith since the 1997 WYD. There is a shift in French people's attitude towards religion. 20 years ago when you discussed politics, people would listen. When you discussed religion, people would laugh. Now it's exactly the contrary. Religion is coming back in the public sphere to fill the moral vacuum left by secular ideologies. I am French and Catholic and I have felt much closer to my faith since the 1997 WYD.

There is a shift in French people’s attitude towards religion. 20 years ago when you discussed politics, people would listen. When you discussed religion, people would laugh.

Now it’s exactly the contrary. Religion is coming back in the public sphere to fill the moral vacuum left by secular ideologies.

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