[StAthanasiustheGreat]

ACtually, the French bishops were recently lectured by the Pontiff I believe to be more loyal and less French (course, merely lecturing is not enough, discipline is needed, which sadly has been lacking in this pontificate).

[narses]

Allegedly, the French hierarchs are the ones who vetoed the Universal Indult that would have ended the only major potential schism in the last century. They are scared of the Latin Mass. The Passion IS the Latin Mass.