Benoît XVI, un pape de rupture dans la continuité

Joseph Ratzinger (1927-2022), connu sous le nom de Benoît XVI depuis son élection sur le trône de Pierre en 2005, a été une des figures les plus importantes de l’Église catholique au XXe siècle et XXIe. Retour sur le parcours de celui qui vient de s’éteindre à Rome, le 31 décembre 2022, à l’âge de … Read more

Why should you never go to bed angry? The luminous explanation of Saint Benoît

We may have repeated it to you: it is best not to go to bed angry with one of his loved ones. Because letting an argument hang out before falling asleep would install a more sustainable bitterness. If today, researchers confirm that sleep does not participate in anchoring negative feelings in the brain, Saint Benoît, … Read more

Benoît Billot: “Death, this great mutation”

For the past few weeks, autumn, with its fragile splendours, has entered our lives. The cemeteries will become flower gardens. In forests and parks, the maples will be covered with gold, this great symbol of accomplishment. Many wonder and express their fears. Someone says to me: “I’m scared, I’m so scared of death! » Another … Read more

Benoît Billot: “The seventh day is made for humans to experience a new side of their life”

This Sunday morning, I saw them enter the chapel, upright, relaxed and happy to share their great vacation moments with others. I guess, through their words, that some went to the end of the world to find an expatriate child, or had a good time with their family in their vacation home, or even rented … Read more

Laelia Benoit, child psychiatrist: “Anxiety is an inevitable, and even healthy, response to ecological threats”

Anxiety about climate change has a name: eco-anxiety. In France, it concerns nearly 80% of young people and a large number of adults. How not to be devoured by this worry? So as not to panic while watching the burning Amazon rainforest and the dying Australian koalas on Instagram? How not to sink into depression … Read more

Benoît Billot: Crash of the waves, branches of the fig tree

I still have before my eyes the determined face of young Greta Thunberg, vigorously shaking the masters of this world. Very annoying at times. However, Joan of Arc of modern times confronting the powerful to deliver her message with authority, this fragile and determined fighter has become a symbolic representative of the fight against global … Read more

Benoît Billot: “Repairing and healing is a divine activity”

Alarm ! The TV news presents the state of the drought in France. In this scorching month of June, the situation is worrying; will we have to pray for the Lord to send rain? Put back on the program the rogation processions? While, on several occasions, in recent days, people have told me of their … Read more

Benoît Billot: “Human beings are viscerally linked to infinite diversity”

Everything is linked, writes Pope Francis. Connect, connect, connect! launches Edgar Morin. Interdependence, or “interbeing”, teach the Buddhists. Did we get the message correctly? It is simple: I am viscerally linked to everything that exists, to the alpine meadow where the herds come to graze, and to the sky where the typhoons rumble; to the … Read more