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Bishop Rougé: ‘The Church does not progress by revolution’

"We have to find new means to encounter people, to share our faith with them in a spirit of dialogue."

Edgar Beltrán
Oct 29, 2024
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France is a contradiction: one of the most traditionally Catholic countries in the world, and one of the most secularized societies in Europe. 

Mgr Matthieu Rougé - Diocèse de Nanterre – Diocèse de Nanterre
Bishop Matthieu Rougé. Credit: Diocese of Nanterre.

A barrage of progressive legislation has passed in the last few years, including making abortion a constitutional right—the first country in the world to do so. …

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