The Jewish writer André Suarès, in one of those memorable flights for which he had the secret, cried, not without foresight: “To serve is the meridian of the West”. Whilst in Rome the seminarians attend to their revision and endure the compulsory mid-year exams, whilst Father René-Sébastien Fournié, absorbed by his double programme in law and theology, has asked me to replace him for this editorial, I believe that to speak of serving… Read More

If we are used to singing or saying the words “Descendit de Caelis et incarnatus est”, they have a special relevance during this Christmas period. And so let us reflect more attentively on these affirmations of our Faith. What is the meaning of “to come down from Heaven”? After Christ’s eternal divinity, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed confesses His Incarnation, starting with the phrase: “For us men and our salvation, He came… Read More

The European Court of Human Rights has once again ruled in a deplorable and absurd way on the matter of crucifixes in Italian schools. No doubt that the autistic technocrats, who despise the real world, will pretend that the present European construction respects the identities of its member states! But this decision is doubly iniquitous: it rejects at the same time a part of human nature, namely that man is by essence a religious animal and… Read More

After an eventful Summer, the bell has sounded the start of the new academic year and gives a glimpse of an encouraging year ahead. Even if the Institute of Good Shepherd is still young (barely 3 years old), the path so far travelled is exciting: some 23 priests and 35 seminarians, new set-ups in several French dioceses over the Summer, and of course the expansion of IBP-Roma. But before coming to our Roman reopening, let us say a few words on… Read More

Lent is a time of penance, as everybody knows, but we have to understand it properly. Despite ourselves, we carry with us a certain Jansenism which has long marked spirituality, so that one too often forgets that if the “fear of God” is the beginning of wisdom, it is precisely only the beginning. However it is the properly Christian duty to remain not at the beginnings of one’s relationship with God but to grow in one’s life of union with… Read More