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Moi? Zis ees a vedy unusual request, but seence you ask so nicely... okay.
Saint Louis XIV, King of France, pray for us.
Ping
Don't you mean St. Louis IX? Louis XIV hasn't been canonized yet. Perhaps Pope Pius XXIII will do so.
Just a taste of what's to come here.
Poor France, once the fair-haired child of Christendom.
I think it's great, however, that a nation so worred about losing its "European/French" heritage managed to to swing wide enough at the Muslims it's slamming and deliver a blow to its own head.
Something at least "fair" about that.
Was this a SSPX or FSSP priest?
The black of the cassock is a sign of mourning for the sins of the world that necessitated the death of the Son of God. All the more proper a garment considering this God-denying sin of evangelical secularism.
Not really all that unexpected, when you consider French history since the Revolution. Prior to, and during, the First World War, the government was so anticlerical that competent officers were denied promotions if it was discovered that they were "too Catholic."
Prior to the Second World War, the various rightist groups in France, such as the Camelots du Roi and Action Francaise were very pro-Catholic, but the victory of the Anglo-Americans (and French Communists) in 1945 ensured that the Catholics would be tarred with "collaboration" and excluded from the political and cultural scene.
It is easy to read far too much into the recent "outburst" of anti-Mohammedan legislation. It's not really nationalist, and it's certainly not pro-Christian. Basically, it is just the devotedly anti-God government going after anything even remotely resembling religion. Last century, it was the Catholics. Now that they have been utterly and completely routed, it's the Mohammedans' turn in the barrel. Damage to Catholics is purely collateral, and -- I am sure -- not unwelcome to those in power; the secularists are just happy to be able to kill two birds with one stone, and take a last belated swipe at l'infame.