Reading the comments by the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, after the conclusion of France’s closed door episcopal conference, is about as inspiring as a flat tire. God forbid that the Church should turn back the clock to the nineteenth century, he cautioned, no not even to the 1950s. Our priests are caught up “in the whirlwind” of modern society, he said, and are just too stressed. Meanwhile, let’s welcome the Mohammedan immigrants and do what we can to bolster the economy in those countries from which they came. Did the convention of French bishops consider their obligation to evangelize the infidels in their own homeland? If so, none of them are talking. What they did discuss was the injustice of their getting the blame from lay folk for not providing leadership for the faithful.
Cardinal André 23, wasn’t it the 1800s that saw the greatest number of saints of any century in the history of France? Read here.
