Cité Nouvelle 1941-1944. Les jésuites entre incarnation et eschatologie

Abstract

After the defeat of 1940, the Jesuits of the “Action populaire”, the movement intended to make known the social doctrine of the Church, launch in January 1941 a new journal, Cité Nouvelle, supervised by P. Desbuquois ; it is soon the main journal of the Company. It supports at first the armistice and the policy of national Revolution. But doubts appear to winter 1941, then a mistrust of Laval. The journal turns to more philosophic and religious studies, abandoning the economic and social questions. At the end of 1942, it launches into the spiritual resistance to the Nazism and Communism ; it preaches a spiritual apostolate and proposes a religion of hope. To convert the people appears more important than to become involved in the world.

Keywords

• Cité Nouvelle
• Vichy
• Apostolate