INTERVIEW – The tremendous popular enthusiasm aroused by the arrival of Pope Francis in Corsica this weekend reflects a singularity: on the island, the cultural fact that Catholicism constitutes has never disappeared and it punctuates daily life, analyzes Arnaud Benedetti , editor-in-chief of The Political and Parliamentary Review.
* Associate professor at Paris-Sorbonne University and editor-in-chief of “ The Political and parliamentary review ». He published At the gates of power. RN, the inevitable victory? (Michel Lafon, 2024).
LE FIGARO. – In Corsica, the Pope was welcomed by a fervent crowd of 15,000 people this weekend. How to interpret this craze ?
ARNAUD BENEDETTI. – The Pope came to meet a Christian people whose relationship with religion is experienced in an uninhibited, natural, peaceful and deeply rooted way. It is this centuries-old rooting that explains this dimension that is as spontaneous and tranquil as it is deep. Corsica is not culturally dechristianized, it never has been: the Christian fact is a transcendent component of identity in the relationship of Corsicans with each other and with the world. Christianity is the glue that holds them together beyond the divisions that may exist as in all societies. This…
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