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Right and Wrong Versus Right and Left, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Right and Wrong Versus Right and Left, by Joseph Pearce

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By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 29, 2025

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co.

 

Should the ideas of the political “Right” and “Left” be put at the center of our beliefs?

The surprise success of the new film Sacré Coeur: Son règne n’a pas de fin (Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End), released in French cinemas in September, has caused great controversy. It is no surprise that such a devoutly Catholic docudrama has divided opinion in French political society, in which laïcité—strictly enforced state secularism, the lingering legacy of the French Revolution—is seen by many as the very defining principle of the French Republic.

What was more surprising, perhaps, was the opposition to the film expressed by some Catholics. In an open letter published in La Croix, a Catholic daily newspaper, a group of what might be termed neo-liberal Catholics claimed that the success of the film illustrated “the growing normalization of far-right ideas within the Christian community” and that the Sacred Heart of Jesus was “being put at the service of a political agenda whose obsession is the reaffirmation of France’s Christian identity.” ….

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