Believe, finally!

Christianity is all nonsense that has been made on Christ. I do not know if Joseph Moingt approve this paraphrase of a judgment that the philosopher Michel Henry applied there thirty-five years to Marx and Marxism. But it's the feeling, both terrible and challenging (or terribly exciting) that I have gained from reading his latest book (published!). All kept bowing to the One who certainly did not intend to found the religion in his person which is assigned its name, versus one that was lucky not to see what totalitarianism was designed under its aegis in the last century.

Believing "anyway". Despite all. In despite of. Lucidity has not killed the father Moingt optimism. His book is that of a young man for the least experienced ... (95), who tells us "religion, damn it" - he also think long - but to turn to better the eternal force of the Gospel and of the person and the announcement that it is announced, Jesus Christ comma. If the Christian religion is dead, at least is dying, if Christianity has continued to "disenchant the world," in the words of Marcel Gauchet, who sees him as "the religion of the exit from religion" what is left of our love to the rest of us children of Vatican II? Faith and God's people.

There's sixty-eighter reactivated in the Moingt father. Even then, the split between faith and religion was fashionable to discern the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. And the "people of God" was invited, like the people of France, to take power in the Church, its clergy and reversing her Magisterium. Reread the example of the young leaders of the JEC productions of the time, and Viveret Sueur, blessed by Bishop Matagrin, made their way from other climes, those policies.

Path reading, I also remembered a Sunday to Bec Hellouin. The abbot then, the great Dom Grammont, commented Luc 18.8 "But the man's son, coming, will he find faith on earth? "After the verb find, he threw it does not means" again ... "but" finally! ". Faith, who must save not only Christians but humanity and even the whole universe, is not looking into a glorious past that should restore the effects of Constantinian domination. No, she's in front of us, it comes to meet us in the faces of children and the poor, the only ones that deserve our genuflections.

It is therefore not plug the holes of a ship which is water everywhere. The Moingt father would rather happily ax to enlarge. For him, the crisis of vocations will perhaps save the Church. Therefore, rather mischievously, he enrolled in the purest Vatican orthodoxy discouraging to get to ordain women or married men, which could delay the ongoing process of decomposition, beneficial to move on .

What else? The future of Catholicism is certainly for him or in the Motu Proprio Masses or in the charismatic evangelists-dévisseurs bulbs. It is in the hands of those who leave the Church today on her toes (sometimes loudly), taking the Gospel as the only sacrament. The Moingt father did not tell them "stay in the institution" but "become Christians where you are" in your current living communities and the ones you invent, never alone because faith is not a solitary adventure, but not necessarily solely between you. Leaven in the human dough for a new batch of "Catholic" truly universal. With or without God, but children of the same Father.