L’Amérique Éclatée

America has become ungovernable

Authority is challenged from all sides

In 1974 a small book was published in Paris, France, under the title, Le Christianisme Éclaté (Exploded Christianity). It reproduced interesting exchanges that had taken place on TV between Michel de Certeau and Jean-Marie Domenach. This was the way the French intelligentsia assessed the future of Christianity, Catholicism being what was meant here.

Like a nuclear reactor that is out of control, the Catholic world was seen as exploding in a spectacular…