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Leo XIV: From the Appeal for Unity to the Decree of Excommunication

What Pope Leo XIV most wanted to avoid has nevertheless taken place, and very soon, under his authority: a solemn decree of excommunication. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 with the aim of restoring within the Catholic Church the tradition that, in his view, had been broken […]

To Hélène Dupont. Obituary

In the morning of March 22, I received the following email message: “Last night, Hélène left us in her sleep, quietly, just like that. She passed away gently, with no fighting. She was efficient all her life and without making any fuss. We will miss her”. These words express all the essentials with the sober […]

Bernard Besret: the utopia of Boquen

In the hot afternoons of the first week of last August, in the shade of a lime tree in Champigny-sur-Veude, a peaceful French village surrounded by wide sunflower and corn fields, I read with both enthusiasm and uneasiness Béatrice Lebel-Goascoz’s doctoral dissertation Boquen entre utopie et révolution1965-1976 (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015). It is a […]