The Gospel Revolution

At the other end of the telephone, the voice of Gabriel Amieux, 24, is choppy by the poor network coverage. “I am at the ZAD of Notre-Dame des Landes”, he apologizes. Coming over the weekend to help build a common place for reception, the young employee of Secours Catholique, responsible for supporting refugees, multiplies his commitments in the Church. Ecology, trade unionism (he is a member of the Solidaires trade union union), fight against capitalism, Gabriel Amieux defends a social Catholicism, claiming the “revolutionary” character of the Gospel, within the Christian collective Anastasis. As such, he is one of the co-organizers of the self-managed Dust Festival, which will be held in August in an eco-hamlet in Côte-d’Or and which wants to think about several issues in the light of the Gospel: poverty, ecology and social issues. Former member of the Center for Research and Social Action (Ceras), an association launched by the Jesuits participating in the reflection on social justice and solidarity, he represented this center within the Green Church.

So many causes which, according to him, go through the fight against an ideology which he considers contrary to Christian anthropology. “We need major revolutions that go through a critique of capitalism in particular, develops the young man who passed through the Mission of France. But we do it from a common prayer, trying to go to the end of the texts. The idea is not to want to stick the Gospel to a political program, but to hear its dimension of social justice. »

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