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<p>On the day after François Fillon’s victory in the Republican primary in France last November, the leftist daily Libération’s headline was: “Help, Jesus is coming back!” The reason for this distress call was that Fillon is known as a practicing Catholic, a faithful husband (unusual among contemporary politicians), and a regular visitor of the Solesmes Benedictine abbey, the symbol of the allegedly reactionary neo-medieval nineteenth-century religious revival. Worse, he is supported by many of the militants who organized the spectacular (albeit vain) mass demonstrations against the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013.</p>

ROME, March 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pair of polls released in France show that increasing numbers of French people want Pope Benedict to "step down." According to Catholic commentators, the polls come at a time of unprecedented hostility in the media to the Pope's reiteration of Catholic sexual morality. According to a poll published in France's Le Journal du Dimanche weekly, 43 percent of French Catholics want Pope Benedict XVI to resign or retire. The poll was divided into "practising" and "non-practising" Catholics, with 47 percent of the latter, and only about a third of the former wanting Benedict...

Paris, Jul. 9, 2007 (CWNews.com) - A survey by the French magazine Pelerin found that 23% of respondents, including 29% of self-declared practicing Catholics, support the papal motu proprio allowing wider use of the 1962 Roman Missal. Those most likely to support the return of the Mass of Blessed John XXIII are Catholics over the age of 65 and those who support center-right political parties. Against the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Mass are 45% of respondents and 65% of self-declared practicing Catholics.

STRASBOURG, France, May 2 (Reuters) - Vandals desecrated around 20 graves with Nazi slogans in a Roman Catholic cemetery near the French border with Germany, police said on Sunday, two days after a similar incident at a nearby Jewish cemetery. The two incidents appeared unrelated. Nazi swastikas daubed around the Catholic cemetery in the village of Niederhaslach, west of Strasbourg, were the wrong way around -- unlike those at the Jewish cemetery, where 127 graves were desecrated. "It doesn't look at all like we're dealing with the same sort of context," one policeman said, adding that the Niederhaslach incident could...