Rallying

The Ralliement indicates the attitude of part of the catholic French which, according to the councils of the Pape Leon XIII and of sound Encyclique Inter will innumeras sollicitudines ( In the middle of solicitudes ), adhere to the République after the February 20th 1892. However, adhesion does not mean the acceptance of the hostile legislation to Catholicism, but simply a rallying with the republican system, in which the catholics endeavor from now on to be of all their weight. But the authority of the pope on French Catholicism is very limited, and the majority ds bishops and the Count of Paris shout with the interference:

  • the large majority of the catholics and the clergy refuses to conform to it before years.

  • part of the catholics is joined the Republic - as the count Albert de Mun and Jacques Piou, chiefs constitutional line at the Parliament.
The policy of the rallying modifies in-depth the French political life:

  • It gives a decisive dash to the movement of the Christian Democrat.

  • It allows the creation of a conservative right, republican catholic but incarnated by the political party of the republican Fédération.

The policy of Rallying according to Charles Lavigerie

The rallying of 1892 had been prepared by a declaration of the Lavigerie cardinal, archbishop of Algiers, receiving French officers the November 12th 1890 (“Toast of Algiers”):

“When the will of people clearly continued, that the shape of a government does not have anything opposite, as Leon XIII proclaimed it lately, to the principles which can make live the nations Christian and civilized, when is needed, to tear off its country with the abysses which threaten it, adhesion without ulterior motive with this shape of government, the moment have just sacrificed all that the conscience and the honor allow, order with each one to sacrifice for the love of the fatherland. It is what I teach around me, it is what I wish to see imitating in France by all our clergy, and while thus speaking, I am certain to be contradicted by no authorized voice. ”

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