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  La douceur est-elle un mensonge spirituel ? O’Connor, Percy et Greene face à la grâce brutale Summary Modern Catholic literature , as embodied by Flannery O’Connor , Walker Percy , and Graham Greene , refuses the pious sweetness of moral comfort. Grace , in their fiction, does not descend as consolation but erupts as shock. It wounds pride, exposes emptiness, and unsettles the soul. These authors depict a theology incarnated in humiliation, violence, and existential fracture. Salvation is not the reward of virtue but the irruption of God where man collapses. Gentleness, here, is not false — but insufficient. Dans la littérature catholique moderne, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy et (à titre de contemporain catholique influent) Graham Greene se distinguent par une esthétique paradoxale. Loin de magnifier des héros vertueux ou des saints de vitrail, ils peuplent leurs récits de personnages humiliés, cyniques ou violents. Dans leurs œuvres, la « grâce » n’est pas un cadeau décern...

  🔥 L’Église savait parler. L’Amérique écoutait. Résumé As the Vatican moves toward the beatification of Fulton J. Sheen , a deeper question emerges. Sheen was not merely a successful Catholic broadcaster; he embodied a Church confident enough to speak clearly in public. His return to prominence exposes today’s unease: has the Church lost confidence in its own voice? 🇺🇸 Catholicisme américain –  Fulton Sheen ou le temps où l’Église n’avait pas peur de parler La béatification imminente de Fulton Sheen n’est pas une aimable commémoration. C’est un rappel brutal. Un rappel qu’il a existé, au cœur du XXᵉ siècle américain, un catholicisme audible, structuré, assumé , capable de s’adresser à la nation sans s’excuser d’être catholique. Sheen parlait en soutane à la télévision, en prime time, à une Amérique majoritairement protestante. Et l’Amérique l’écoutait. Pas par folklore. Par intérêt. 📺 Un scandale oublié : dire la vérité sans la diluer Ce qui frappe, rétrospect...

  Une foi sans sucre : la grâce brutale dans la littérature catholique américaine  Summary Sine saccharo fides: gratia per violentiam Modern American Catholic literature rejects devotional sweetness in favor of an incarnational severity. In the works of Flannery O’Connor , Walker Percy , Graham Greene , and Cormac McCarthy , grace does not descend gently but erupts amid sin, violence, despair, and moral collapse. These authors portray a world where redemption is not sentimental but traumatic, often appearing in extremis . O’Connor employs grotesque violence as a sacramental shock; Percy explores existential emptiness healed only by humble fidelity; Greene locates sanctity within failure and moral contradiction; McCarthy, most radically, suggests God through absence, allowing grace to appear only as a fragile remnant amid cosmic brutality. Against European Catholic introspection, this tradition insists on incarnation rather than abstraction. Faith is tested in blood, dust, ...

  « Hollywood », catéchisme parallèle Résumé (Anglais, style latiniste) : In the grand amphitheater of American culture, Hollywood has long served as a pontifex maximus of secular belief. From early sound films to today’s streaming epics, the movies have disseminated an implicit theology – often subtler and more persuasive than any pulpit homily. Biblical blockbusters, saintly biopics and feel-good conversions (from The Passion of the Christ to The Chosen ) have offered Americans an informal catechism in technicolor researchgate.net decentfilms.com . Yet the same cinema has also sounded the shofar of critique, uncovering clergy scandals and ecclesial hypocrisy in films like Spotlight , Doubt or El Club . In uno lamentis orbis, Hollywood thus preaches two gospels at once: an evangelium laetitiae of faith and redemption, and an evangelium ictus of doubt and reform. The upshot is a sacred paradox: screens have replaced some pews, but the real Verbum – in scroll or heart – remai...