Posts From Sebastien Maillard
EN | FR | IT – “Where is your strength? Where is your idealism that inspired and ennobled your history? Where is your spirit of curiosity and enterprise?”. The questions are those of a Pope worried for the future of Europe, who spoke Tuesday, November 25 from Strasbourg to all peoples represented at the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. As brief as intense, this strictly protocoled visit, dedicated solely to the European institutions, allowed the Pope to present his vision of a Europe which has become a “grandmother”, “ fearful and self-absorbed,” that he, again, judged “weary”. He urged it to take a hold of herself by finding anew a Christian approach to the human person “endowed with transcendent dignity”.
EN | FR | IT – Pope Francis began on the 15th of June, to invest the European question. By an unexpected entry: Albania, where he announced his visit on September 21st . The choice sounds like a provocation. This nation is located on the edge of the continent. It has less than 3 million inhabitants. It is plagued by organized crime. It is predominantly Muslim after having been under the Communist dictatorship, more openly atheist. For a pope it is certainly not the place where the future of Catholicism is at stake that prepare on the contrary his next two trips to Asia.
EN | FR | IT – Pope Francis does not hide his difficulty in understanding the European Union. Yet, his exhortation Evangelii gaudium may be useful in undertaking the building of Europe.
EN | FR | IT – Once again, another 9th of May which will pass unnoticed. A date ignored, apart from the valiant members of the European Movement. The 9th of May, 2014 will be however accompanied by a French-German meeting between François Hollande and Angela Merkel on the Baltic. But it will be a European feast day with no joy. Yet all the ingredients are combined together for a real European campaign: the destabilization of our Ukrainian neighbour, and the lessons that have still to be learned about the crisis in the Euro zone, to mention only the topics that should be obvious.
EN | FR | IT – Basic professional journalism requires to seek, check and spread information. A Christian journalist will add to this: questioning what this same information tells us from mankind in its alliance with its Creator. Of course not explicitly as spelled out here. Christian journalism comes out in the way of selecting information, the respect in which any person is portrayed, the willingness to keep far-sighted and the ability to point out things that lied there but yet had somehow never been highlighted. A Christian journalist believes in the capacity to change, forgive and trust…
