Revival of French Religion.

FRENCH politics & government; WAR; RELIGIONS; JESUITS; CHRISTIANS; FREEMASONS

Is there a renaissance of religion going on in France? Jesuits and Christian Brothers by the hundred, curés and other priests by the thousands and tens of thousands, fight and are wounded and killed beside the "lay" school-teacher and the Protestant minister and the Jew, with a Freemason corporal mayhap leading them. Before the war the intellectual and the moral, and even the physical, life of the French people was cruelly misunderstood in foreign countries, as French behavior in war has more than proved. So, too, their religious life was not only misunderstood, but it was commonly underestimated. Latterly, it was mixed up with magnifying legends of anti-Catholic political activity in France. Such activity cannot cease from existence, but it is largely suspended by the enduring explosion of war and danger common to the lives of all. This is, at most, a very negative revival of religion.