Did the Communist Party have a secret file on Abbé Pierre? – Liberation

Mentions of a file have existed since the 1950s and historians consider the thesis plausible. But for now, we can’t get our hands on it.

The Abbé Pierre affair conceals many secrets. When they broached the question in the 1950s, the bishops spoke among themselves in a cryptic manner, as can be seen when reading the correspondence accessible in the declassified file of the episcopate. What did Abbot Pierre do? The prelates use, at best, expressions of the Catholic Church such as against the sixth or sixth grade, in other words contrary to the sixth commandment of the Decalogue, which concerns sexual affairs. To see clearly, do we have to look in the archives of the Communist Party? The question is not far-fetched.

In the 1950s, the French episcopate was, in fact, convinced that its great ideological enemy held a secret file on Abbé Pierre. And fear above all that he will use it. While Abbot Pierre was interned at the Prangins clinic, in Switzerland, Mgr Jean-Marie Villot, the secretary of the equivalent of the “politburo” of bishops, wrote, on January 10, 1958, unambiguous words to the primacy of Gaules, the cardinal archbishop of Lyon, Gerlier. “We must not hide from the fact that all this could one day or another become known, and that public opinion would be very surprised to see that