{"id":1443204,"date":"2022-04-18T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443204"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:01:16","slug":"french-bishops-silent-upon-presidential-election-as-increasingly-more-catholics-support-le-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-bishops-silent-upon-presidential-election-as-increasingly-more-catholics-support-le-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"French Bishops Silent upon Presidential Election as Increasingly more Catholics Support Le Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-bishops-silent-upon-presidential-election-as-increasingly-more-catholics-support-le-pen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240017190-e1650230973624-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n<p>French Roman Catholic bishops have a long history of advising their worshippers on how to vote in elections but, for the 2022 French presidential election, they are expected to remain silent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of presidential hopeful leader Marine Le Pen, challenged Jacques Chirac in the second round of that year;s presidential election, bishops were public in their opposition to him \u2014 but\u00a0<em>La Croix<\/em> editor-in-chief\u00a0Isabelle de Gaulmyn says bishops<a href=\"https:\/\/www.la-croix.com\/Debats\/Consignes-vote-dilemme-eveques-2022-04-15-1201210581\"> are now silent<\/a> as a growing number of Catholics support his daughter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Court Tries Repeat Criminal over Burning of Four Churches<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91NcInjBq8\">https:\/\/t.co\/91NcInjBq8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1483544728616546306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat has changed? Probably first of all the Catholics themselves. Like the rest of society, many of them vote for far-right parties. This is new. Moreover, still like society, they are divided and the bishops fear to break this fragile unity a little more,\u201d Ms de Gaulmyn wrote in an opinion editorial.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the newspaper <em>Le Figaro<\/em>, the French Catholic vote has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/elections\/presidentielles\/presidentielle-2022-le-vote-des-catholiques-se-deplace-a-l-extreme-droite-20220411\">migrated toward the right<\/a> and in the first round of the presidential vote 40 per cent of Catholics voted for Ms Le Pen, conservative writer and pundit Eric Zemmour, or right-wing candidate Nicholas Dupont-Aignan.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, President Emmanuel Macron scored 29 per cent of the Catholic vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antifa Militants Attack Catholics Commemorating Martyrs in Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MDiOulKhUP\">https:\/\/t.co\/MDiOulKhUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1399681127518978053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Catholic voting has moved to the right even since the last French presidential election in 2017, when just 28 per cent of Catholics voted for populist conservative candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Catholics voting for leftist candidates has remained largely stagnant, however, going from 20 per cent of the vote in 2017 to 21 per cent in the first round of the presidential elections this year.<\/p>\n<p>The French centre-right has seen the largest loss in support from the Catholic voting community, going from 28 per cent in 2017 when Francois Fillon ran on behalf of the Republicans to just seven per cent for this year\u2019s candidate, Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse.<\/p>\n<p>The shifting of the Catholic vote in France comes after years of near-constant attacks on French churches during the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, with one 2019 report claiming an average of three churches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/03\/30\/macrons-france-average-of-three-church-attacks-per-day\/\">were being attacked<\/a> per day.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a man was arrested in Toulouse after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/11\/man-arrested-over-explosive-device-planted-in-french-cathedral\/\"> planting an explosive device<\/a> inside the\u00a0\u00a0Saint-Etienne cathedral and assaulting a sacristan who attempted to detain him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macron&#8217;s France: Average of Three Church Attacks Per Day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/flFZuZVQyN\">https:\/\/t.co\/flFZuZVQyN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1112097170121850881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger 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