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A French Cabinet Member Announced That the Government Will Monitor Traditionalists in France

A French Cabinet Member Announced That the Government Will Monitor Traditionalists in France Including Civitas a Branch of the SSPX

Paris, France, Dec 13, 2012 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A French cabinet member announced that the government will monitor certain groups for "religious pathology," including a traditionalist Catholic organization, and will shut them down if it is discovered.

“The objective is to identify when it's suitable to intervene to treat what has become a religious pathology,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls told a conference on the official policy of secularism, according to Reuters.

“The aim is not to combat opinions by force, but to detect and understand when an opinion turns into a potentially violent and criminal excess,” he said at the Dec. 11 conference.

Valls' remarks come in the wake of President Francois Hollande's announcement Dec. 9 that he would create the “National Observatory of Secularism” to promote France’s policy and to “formulate propositions for the transmission of 'public morality,' giving it a dignified place in schools.”

Hollande's announcement of the observatory was made on the anniversary of the adoption of a law in 1905 that established secularism as state policy in France. It was accompanied by the decision to honor the sociologist Emile Poulat, who helped to “promote secularism as an essential value of our living-together.”

Secularism (laïcité in French) has received a boost from Hollande's Socialist government, which believes it was weakened under former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Valls said that the government would be monitoring violence among religious radicals, including Salafist Muslims and Civitas, an organization of lay Catholics which is associated with the Society of Saint Pius X.

He said that Civitas is observed because its political protests flirt with “the limits of legality … All excesses are being minutely registered in case we have to consider dissolving it and defending this before a judge.”

Civitas is “a political movement inspired by natural law and the social doctrine of the Church … engaged in the establishment of the social Kingship of Christ” throughout the world, and in France in particular. It demonstrates against secularism and policies which denigrate Christianity.

According to Reuters, Valls offered radicals Islamists, traditionalist Catholics, and ultra-orthodox Jews “who want to live separately from the modern world” as examples of religious extremists.

Under the secularist policy, the government will identify “sects” and disband faith-based groups it deems to suffer from “religious pathology.”

On Oct. 31 of this year, the Tunisian imam Muhammad Hammami was expelled from France because he defended violence against women and made anti-Semitic speeches at his Parisian mosque.

“We decided to be uncompromising against all those who utter hate speech against the Republic and our values,” Valls said at the time.

In March 2012, an al-Qaeda supporter murdered three soldiers and four Jews in Toulouse, which Valls said at the conference “showed how quickly religiously radicalized people could turn to force.”

Secularism in France discourages the display of religion in the public square. In 2004, Muslim women were barred from wearing hijabs in public schools.

Education minister Vincent Peillon told the Dec. 11 conference that the classes on secular morality would emphasize the French secularist values of equality and fraternity.

In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, he said that secular morality is to “understand what is right and to distinguish good from evil.”

“Secularism is not about simple tolerance … it is a set of values that we have to share.”

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Marie on December 28, 2012 at 1:41pm

France: Demonstration Family January 13, 2013 in Paris

21-12-2012

DICI

In a development of an attempt against the confiscation of protest against the homosexual "marriage", Alain Escada, president of the Civitas Institute, writes: "It is with concern that we have seen a committee proclaim this organizer popular protest to immediately seek to restrain, to format, to unify, to sanitize. (...) The committee clearly attempting to confiscate the popular mobilization that we are seeing the benefit of an ambiguous speech (normalization of homosexuality, obsession asking Catholics to "hide" in the ordinary citizens of the Republic instructions vulgar ...).

And respond firmly, "No, the French will manifest January 13 do not want a" homo-education "in the schools of their children! No, they do not want a "PACS +"! No, they do not come to dance in a chariot gay! Pass these serious errors pretext to avoid controversy is to allow it to turn into gangrene which corrupt all future battles. (...)

"Of course, we all want our events bring together many participants. But let us beware of the number to a key objective and paramount to the price of all sacrifices. This is the truth of the message carried by the demonstrators is essential. If a defender of family and marriage, under the pretext of being effective and make number begins with mutilate the truth or mitigate his fancy, he no longer defends the truth. It may well be in good faith, but by dint of his message to accommodate the narrow views and his feeble courage to make, imagine he is more acceptable to the opponent, he no longer defends the truth but illusion.

"Let no one misunderstand the reasons for this release! I have often said and written: there is no need to be a Catholic Christian believer to understand the harmfulness of this bill. And it is gratifying that the French come from all backgrounds into the street screaming outrage at a government project that wishes disfigure the institution of marriage and pave the way for the commercialization of the child.

"But imagine if no request that this event is restricted to Catholics, it would be even more absurd to fall into the opposite extreme and require them to demonstrate in a shameful anonymity. It would be absurd because no journalist, despite all efforts "crazy" Ms. Looney, is fooled find all although Catholics are the big battalions of demonstrators against this bill. (...)

"Tell Catholics to keep a low profile and to participate in the January 13 event as if it were a masked ball, is an accomplice of the secular fundamentalists who are also the authors of the text law alleged to fight. Claim the non-intervention of religion in political debate is to contribute to the development of a real social atheism. (...)

"To all Catholics, but to all the French sense of loving a speech bearer of truth and without concession to lie, I solemnly fixed appointment Sunday, January 13 from 13h up Pinel (metro: national) in the ^thirteenth arrondissement.

"The street belongs to everyone and we do not need the approval of a committee" gay friendly "to express! Now, prepare transportation grouped to facilitate the participation of the greatest number. As on November 18, Civitas organize logistic support of this gathering will welcome and no cliquishness all those who want to withdraw this bill. Streamers, banners, flags and placards will be welcome (as long as the texts relate directly to the subject of the event and respect the French law). Everyone comes dressed hair and as he wants. Catholics there will not be ashamed of their faith, but is not a sign of exclusion for others. "(Source: Civitas - DICI No. 267 of 21/12/12)