However, if they wish to support the Archbishop (and not necessarily for the right reasons) there is nothing he can do about it.The French hierarchy has replaced social teaching with diluted Marxism to such an extent that anyone adopting the Catholic position is now automatically accused of fascism. The political views of some of the French Catholics who support the Archbishop would certainly be odious to many English-speaking traditionalists – although such views are more understandable (if not acceptable) within the French context. In France political feeling tends to be more polarized, more extreme, and far more deeply felt than in England.Since the war, and especially since Vatican II, the official French Church has veered sharply to the left.Thus, a large proportion of right-wing Catholics was predisposed to support any religious movement opposed to the policies of the French hierarchy. Īrchbishop Lefebvre's first biographer, the English traditionalist writer Michael Davies, wrote in the first volume of his Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre: Philippe Laguérie called the Front National "the party least removed from the natural law". In 1985, Lefebvre was quoted in the French far-right periodical Présent as endorsing Jean-Marie Le Pen, though his endorsement was made on the basis that Le Pen was the only major French politician who unambiguously condemned abortion. Support for the Front National political party and its former leader, Jean-Marie le Pen, who is on the far right of the political spectrum. There have also been allegations that the SSPX had links with the Vichy functionary Paul Touvier and that Vichy songs were learned at a scout camp of the Society (see below). The trials resulted in 791 executions and almost 50,000 forfeitures of civil rights. The Society's official journal in Belgium has denounced the anti-Vichy trials conducted after World War II by the mainstream republican followers of Charles De Gaulle. The Society organises pilgrimages to Pétain's tomb, and during the 1987 pilgrimage the Archbishop referred to him as having "restored spiritually and morally". Lefebvre spoke approvingly of the "Catholic order of Pétain", referring to the Vichy Premier Marshal Philippe Pétain, who was later convicted of treason and collaboration with Nazi Germany.
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