Those that fall into the media drawer Manichean the "traditionalist Catholics" are sometimes some of these people who were fed by a rich and varied movement, fueled for years by John OUSSET .
Jean OUSSET and several companions decided around 1939 to devote his life to the formation of a civic and political elite capable of contributing to the revival of France after events and meetings that prepared the initial intuition has clarified its vocation. For Jean OUSSET , there is need to train an elite Catholic can create the social conditions most favorable happiness and salvation of men ...
Having defined the objective and the method it wishes to promote, Jean OUSSET materialized his project in 1946. This is the "Catholic City," which he founded with his friend Jean MASSON , and he says the ambition " Train, to provide the benefit to our country of France, a sufficient number to be decisive, political and social frameworks . The Catholic City grows by the formation of small groups of activists, "cells".
regards the renewal of the order time, the task in the laity and they should enjoy complete autonomy in their work. Thus confirms Pope John XXIII. However, a majority of bishops show their incomprehension at the work that does not depend on the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
In 1963, the "International Office works training and civic action by the doctrine of natural law and Christian " is a continuation of the "Catholic City." Its action is upstream of combats and special moves as intended to unite, assist and train all those who work at Christian revival of France.
deep crisis of the Church and of civilization in crisis, the Congress movement were large gatherings of lay Catholics across Europe. They gathered a wide variety of associations that took a stand and for which the "International Office " acted as a hyphen.
professional networks are formed, which then become specialized agencies by business called " satellites.
the mid-70s, before the damage resulting from the crisis of the Church and the crisis of civilization that our country, John OUSSET notes, even before the events of May 68, he no longer enough to say and teach to be followed. We must now demonstrate the validity of the doctrine by the facts, history and current events. To expand
affected media, the method of overlapping and "sociability" develop.
Conferences Lausanne meet Jean Madiran, Marcel de Corte , Jean Daujat , Gustave Thibon , Marcel Clement Professor Jerome Lejeune , and many others. The high sensitivity of
OUSSET Jean, a former student of Fine Arts allows him to understand how our contemporaries are lured not by reasoned adherence to an ideology, but rather by a general climate deleterious is the result of a subversion of culture : cinema, literature, television, fashion ...
To take into account the cultural dimension of the work, the International Office is the "International Office works training and civic action cultural (rather than doctrinal). The satellites become independent.
Then the bursting of the International Office and the birth of ICTUS which Jacques TREMOLLET VILLERS takes responsibility. We insisted on the general training of the facilitator. The method of "Learning to see" refers to the love of Christian civilization and its rich heritage. The emphasis is on lessons provided by history, to trace the principles by making them more alive.
To focus on action and on the network rather than intellectual work, ICTUS changes in 1997 " Training Center in civic and cultural life according to natural law and Christian " which, for the sake of greater visibility, resumed in 2006 under the name of Ichthys .
Today Ichthys more than ever committed to the principles and methods defined and clarified by Jean OUSSET throughout the life of his work:
The need for action in the Incarnate
Culture
And according to the social teaching of the Church.
However, this is 2009 and times have changed. I have consistently found the limits of reasoning of traditional Roman Catholics, heirs more or less close to "La Cité Catholique .
How did I come to this conclusion?
the heart of the economic crisis these Catholics do not understand and reject To summarize briefly, globalization, defending jumble a world now gone. Their speeches are Surrans and not adapted to the modern world is changing and that changes every day even at excessive speed. Much too fast for those traditionalists attached to a tradition. A tradition, moreover, made their own measure and therefore too subjective. The main enemies of
" City Catholic ", besides the Marxists were particularly Church (alleged) Progressive ... The economic issue, the social doctrine existed long for them but their concerns remained circumcised the microcosm and the world confessional bi-polar crystallized by the Cold War.
As a general rule today, and to shorten my explanation schematically, traditionalist Catholicism asserts its commitment the Tridentine rite, also known as the "mass of Saint Pius V" (or John XXIII), as opposed to the Novus Ordo Missae (or liturgical reform). It is also demonstrated by adherence to a certain vision "tradition of the Church"; their own and subjective they grow in a vacuum behind the fence from their point of view. Deployed a fence to contain a world "fallen" they want to protect their children. I use these images that I know to be grotesque but nonetheless indicative of a certain state of mind regarding a certain ghettoization. Ghettoization which excludes knowingly or unknowingly Catholic whose number gives different yet the majority of Catholics.
The "descendants" of the movement of OUSSET Jean Jacques or TREMOLLET VILLERS can now have a legitimate reason to denounce the evil protagonists and evil mechanisms of the current crisis, their reading of the event gives no remains fragmented and reductionist. They measure only moderately forces at work in this World social, economic and political. The world has evolved very fast and their analysis would be to re-actualize in this context systemic and global contingencies beyond old they were defined as part of their own arguments and opinions. For example, among other views commonly accepted by them : the world is manipulated by the French Masonic lodges, international Jewish or from Israel ... This last point homebound anti-Semitism and racism which carries religious intolerance for any religion that is not the lesser evil. Their reading Samuel Huntington and his test of political analysis: "The Clash of Civilizations" comfort them in their conformity. This test requires a certain quality however, a critical distance to avoid rocks in the fields of a resentment towards those who are different.
For these people the Depression accelerates the degeneration of France has long begun. Still, they highlight the shortcomings of the "French model " and no longer see the qualities. However and as we said in our message of 13 July on this blog, France has, despite all appearances and unlike most European countries like Italy, Spain, Germany and the countries of the is a "model " has yet limited the damage.
We gave the reasons in this post on 13 July.
As we wrote in several of our previous posts, it is primarily the task indelible greed, pride has always been printed in the hearts of men, who plunged the world into this capitalism profit at any cost.
Here their grandiloquent speeches will not solve anything, their factions of young volunteers ready to fight there will not ideologically.
It is above all the little things of ordinary life that they will move the world starting with an education of their children open to world, a solid intellectual and moral world-oriented, economic, for example. While the
coups, collective actions are needed, but the key is to produce in the privacy of an ordinary life. For example, as part well trained in economic and financial workings may, within a Steering Committee, to resist tooth and nail against a wave of layoffs stock. A politician of the left or right necessary to affirm social justice, voting for a particular law ...
Thus, these initiatives will not be that of one camp against another camp, but those individuals distributed and disseminated to the factory, workshop, office, hospital, company, university, politics ...
If the return of the Policy, it is the noblest, is needed in a chaotic world in non self-regulating its economy and financial markets - the current crisis has revealed enough - the individual initiatives are advantage. For it is a sum of individual initiatives that can change the world and not a group, a faction ghettoized in castrated and therefore its credibility in a world that has become more holistic but not individualistic. You must adapt to the march of history and read the signs of time ...
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