Russland hat ĂŒbrigens heute bewiesen, dass man Wahlen auch dann durchfĂŒhren kann, wenn man Beschuss ausgesetzt ist. Wahlen in der Ukraine steht daher nichts mehr entgegen, @ZelenskyyUa
BFM @RoyalSegolene est convaincue quâelle va gagner la primaire socialiste.
- « Les jeunes ont le droit de naßtre et de vivre dans un monde en paix.
-« La retraite est le patrimoine de ceux qui nâen ont pas ».
-« Il est hors de question de se ranger derriÚre @JLMelenchon ».
Sieh mal an, auf einmal schwenken Marine Le Pen und Jordan Bardella vom französischen "Rassemblement National" auf Anti-Russland-Kurs. Erst die theatralische Distanzierung von der deutschen AfD und nun das. Wie es scheint, geht die französische RechtsauĂen-Partei angesichts einer echten Machtoption bei der PrĂ€sidentschaftswahl in Frankreich im nĂ€chsten Jahr auf Globalisten- und EU-Kurs. Melonisierung nennt man das, oder?
https://t.co/8wiczKfj7G
16% in Berlin, 38% und stÀrkste Kraft in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Vielen Dank an alle WÀhler und die vielen engagierten WahlkÀmpfer, die diesen Erfolg möglich gemacht haben!
These figures are simply staggering. Whatever explanations we offer for secularisation, demographics and France's particular history, a fall from 38,876 priests to 12,590 and from 513,000 annual baptisms to 186,000 tells us something rather obvious: what we have been doing has not worked. But there is a fascinating paradox emerging in France. At precisely the moment when the institutional statistics look catastrophic, something appears to be stirring among the young. France recorded 13,000 adult baptisms at Easter this year, following enormous growth in catechumens in recent years, while traditional Catholic communities and pilgrimages continue to demonstrate a striking ability to attract committed young Catholics.
That surely deserves serious attention.
Perhaps the question for Pope Leo when he arrives in France next week is not simply how the Church manages decline, but whether she has the confidence to ask where Catholicism is actually growing, who is coming, and what they are looking for. My suspicion is that many young people are not searching for a Christianity made progressively easier, less demanding or more accommodating to secular modernity. They have secular modernity already. They are looking for transcendence, belonging, moral seriousness, beauty, identity and ultimately an encounter with Christ.
France was once called the eldest daughter of the Church. These statistics tell the story of an extraordinary collapse, but the new generation of French Catholics may yet tell us something considerably more hopeful. The question is whether the institutional Church is prepared to listen to them. And perhaps that will be one of the most consequential tests of Leo XIV's pontificate. https://t.co/qYuIYqFpqQ