Pierre Jova, Author at Catholic Herald

Pierre Jova

The new champion of the French Catholic Right?

June 07, 2018

The influence of Marion Maréchal is growing, but not everyone is pleased

June 07, 2018

“Chartres sonne, Chartres t’appelle! Gloire, honneur au Christ-Roi!” Under a radiant sky a stream of singing pilgrims stretches across the French countryside. It is Pentecost weekend and roughly 12,000 people are walking from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to Chartres, the cathedral town about 50 miles south of the capital. The pilgrimage, which has taken place

The election with no right answer

May 04, 2017

In the first round, French Catholics did not vote for either Macron or Le Pen. They face a dilemma at the ballot box this Sunday

The election with no right answer

May 04, 2017

‘La peste ou le choléra’: the plague or cholera. This expression perfectly captures the dilemma of French Catholics at the ballot box this Sunday. In the second round of the presidential election, they must choose between Emmanuel Macron, the candidate of the centre-left party En Marche!, and Marine Le Pen, the right-wing populist candidate. In

When politics replaces morality

February 02, 2017

‘You have a duty to disobey to the ecclesial authorities on temporal matters!” You might assume that the man saying these words, standing in a café in Paris and addressing some 30 young people, is a secular bigot of the kind we have in France, thanks to our laïcité, or state secularism. But you would

Le Pen’s Catholic flock

October 06, 2016

After meeting stiff resistance for decades, the French National Front is now gaining ground among Catholics. For years, commentators had spoken of a “Catholic exception”: the faithful had seemed notably hostile to the party compared with other social groups. But in last December’s regional elections, Catholics voted for the National Front in proportionately greater numbers

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