The condemnation of Action Française by Pius XI, a difficult decision to accept

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Summer series: 100 years ago, Pius XI condemned Action Française

A few days after its public condemnation by Pius On Christmas Eve, the newspaper chose to loudly publicize its opposition to Rome. “Non possumus”: the two words cross the front page of the newspaper. Those same ones pronounced by Saints Peter and John, according to the Acts of the Apostles (4, 19-20), after the ban placed on them by the Sanhedrin from opening their mouths and teaching in the name of Jesus. “We cannot (Non possumus) not talk about what we saw and heard,” retort the two accused. “For Action Française, the fact of taking up the words of the Apostle Peter to oppose it to Pius

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