Philippe Laguérie

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Philippe Laguérie (born September 30, 1952 in Sceaux ) is a Catholic traditionalist and ancient ritualist and was Superior General of the Institut du Bon Pasteur, which he founded from 2006 to 2019 .

Life

Philippe Laguérie comes from a bourgeois Catholic milieu with close ties to the church. Two of the family's nine children, Jacques and Philippe, became priests , but both reject the results of the Second Vatican Council . Philippe was ordained a priest on June 29, 1979 by the retired Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (excommunicated in 1988; † 1991) for the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX) founded by him in November 1970 . In their service he worked 1983-1997 in the succession of François Ducaud-Bourget as pastor of the so-called traditionalists illegally occupied church Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in the center of Paris. As such and through many appearances in the media, he became a figure known throughout France.

In 1987 he defended statements by right-wing extremist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen on the Holocaust , saying that the latter was a victim of the “Jewish finance capital” that had been tyrannizing France for 45 years. The theses of the Holocaust deniers Henri Roques and Robert Faurisson , a French neo-Nazi , are "absolutely scientific." Laguérie named a godchild Le Pen and declared in 1991 about his right-wing extremist party: The Front National is the party that is the least distant from " natural law " be. In 1996 he held a requiem for the convicted war criminal Paul Touvier , whom the Pius Brotherhood had previously hidden in a monastery in Nice , and declared himself Touviers lawyer before God: There would be no media, no stagings, no co-plaintiffs and no organizations before the last court against racism and anti-Semitism . Every year it is supposed to celebrate the birthday of the National Socialist collaborator Philippe Pétain with a mass.

From 2002 he headed the FSSPX priory Bordeaux at the church of Saint-Éloi ("St. Eulogius "). The church, which has been closed since 1981 and which served as an archive for the civil parish between 1994 and 2001, was opened on January 29, 2002 by decision of the city council by the then Mayor Alain Juppé of the Association Église Saint-Éloi , a member of the Society of St. Pius X. The traditionalist association that emerged, was made available with the order to clean up, restore and open the naves. Although the administrative court overturned this decision on December 20, 2002, this judgment was upheld on April 27, 2004 in an appeal procedure and the city council also reversed the agreement made between Mayor Alain Juppé and the Association Église Saint-Éloi , the Church of remained Laguérie and his supporters occupied. Laguérie personally took over the chairmanship of the Association Église Saint-Éloi on September 15, 2003 .

On September 16, 2004, Laguérie was expelled from the Society of St. Pius X by Bishop Bernard Fellay , the Superior General of the FSSPX, because of his severe criticism of the leadership and lecturers of the FSSPX seminary Écône (near Riddes , Switzerland) after having previously been a had refused to be transferred to Mexico. After lengthy negotiations he joined in 2006 in ecclesial communion with the Pope and with the leadership of the newly founded on September 8, 2006, Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right " Institute of the Good Shepherd " (German: Institute of the Good Shepherd) commissioned. The institute celebrates the divine service according to the liturgical books valid in 1962, i.e. in the version before the later Roman Catholic liturgical reform , and initially had its canonical seat in Bordeaux at the Church of Saint-Éloi. In the following years it expanded its activities inside and outside France and opened its own seminary in the village of Courtalain in the Eure-et-Loir department ( Diocese of Chartres ), where candidates from various European and Latin American countries are prepared for the priesthood. In 2014 the community consisted of about 30 priests and 40 seminarians.

From 2006, Laguérie directed the private school Cours Saint-Projet in Bordeaux, which had been founded by members of his parish association at the Church of Saint-Éloi. From 2007 to 2011 he served as pastor of the personal parish established by the Archdiocese of Bordeaux at this church. The school was closed by the school authorities in 2010 after a television report documented anti-Semitic , right-wing extremist and racist statements by teachers and students and the school management failed to comply with the authority's requirements to remedy deficiencies in the content of history and science subjects. The school was then continued as a state-not recognized private educational institution.

In 2011 he left Bordeaux and moved to a homestead rented by his community in the hamlet of La Rivardière in Migné-Auxances in the Vienne department , where the Society's General Curia was temporarily based. After a year he left the new domicile during a serious leadership crisis in the community and retired to the institute's own seminar in the village of Courtalain , which insists on the property of the Marquis de Gontaud-Biron in the Eure-et-Loir department ( Diocese of Chartres ) . In an election supervised by the Vatican in Fontgombault Abbey , Laguérie was re-elected Superior General on August 31, 2013 by the General Chapter of the Institut du Bon Pasteur for a further six-year term and was confirmed as such by the Vatican on September 12 of the same year. With the end of this term of office in autumn 2019, he handed over the management of his institute to a successor.

Individual evidence

  1. Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. Time online , November 21, 2012
  2. Des moulins à vent ( Memento of December 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ); Le Monde , September 18, 1987
  3. Internet Center Anti-Racism Europe (August 24, 2005): Philippe Laguérie qui établissait dès 1991 que le Front National était "le parti le moins éloigné du droit naturel"
  4. ^ Lefebvre movement: long, troubled history with Judaism ( Memento February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); Vade retro soutanas October 11, 2006 ; AngelusOnline Page 831 ( Memento of February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); Paul Touvier, 81, French War Criminal (June 18, 1996) . The quote can be found in a different wording in Michaela Wiegel, Occupied Church, outlawed friends. In: FAZ, January 31, 2009, p. 5: Laguerie is pleased that Touvier is now "appearing before the holy court, before which there are no media, no communists, no Freemasons, no co-plaintiffs and no human rights league".
  5. Stéphane Lhomme: Bordeaux, capitale des intégristes: merci Juppé! ReSPUBLICA issue 510 of February 9, 2007. Communiqué publié par l'AFP sur ce blog. Last accessed on February 9, 2007.
  6. ^ Loïc Lejay: L'abbé Laguérie a fermé la parenthèse mignanxoise. In: La Nouvelle République , January 7, 2014, accessed on August 12, 2020 (French).
  7. Les paroissiens de Saint-Eloi veulent leur école , 20minutes.fr, March 4, 2006
  8. France: Traditionalist School Must Close , Vatican Radio , June 4, 2010
  9. Migné-Auxances (86): les catholiques intégristes de l'abbé Laguérie sont partis en toute discrétion. In: France 3 , January 6, 2014, updated June 10, 2020, accessed August 12, 2020 (French).