On attendait depuis longtemps la conversion de Tony Blair au catholicisme. Elle a eu lieu le 21 d\u00e9cembre au soir, lors d’une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie priv\u00e9 \u00e0 Westminster, par le Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor en pr\u00e9sence de sa femme Cherie qui parrainait sa conversion. (L’influence de Cherrie Blair, d’une vieille famille catholique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9terminante pour conduire Tony \u00e0 la foi catholique, sa conversion ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cid\u00e9e bien avant<\/a> son d\u00e9part du 10, Downing Street.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa conversion de Tony Blair a lieu quasiment de fa\u00e7on simultan\u00e9e avec l’annonce que son pays redevient catholique, sinon officiellement du moins dans la majorit\u00e9 des pratiquants (l’Angleterre fut officiellement catholique jusqu’\u00e0 l’institution de l’Eglise Anglicane, sous et par Henry VIII, au XVI\u00e8me si\u00e8cle). Le Daily Telegraph<\/em> annonce la nouvelle dans son \u00e9dition (Sunday Telegraph<\/em>) du dimanche 23 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>. L’annonce est faite quasiment un an exactement (voir notre F&C<\/em> du 23 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>) apr\u00e8s qu’on ait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement comme imminent, essentiellement \u00e0 cause de l’afflux de Polonais en Angleterre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abRoman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country’s dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis means that the established Church has lost its place as the nation’s most popular Christian denomination after more than four centuries of unrivalled influence following the Reformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbLast night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should act as a wake-up call.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe statistics show that attendance at Anglican Sunday services has dropped by 20 per cent since 2000. A survey of 37,000 churches, to be published in the new year, shows the number of people going to Sunday Mass in England last year averaged 861,000, compared with 852,000 Anglicans worshipping.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe rise of Catholicism has been bolstered by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe and Africa, who have packed the pews of Catholic parishes that had previously been dwindling.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl est manifeste que cette \u00e9volution commence \u00e0 inqui\u00e9ter diverses autorit\u00e9s culturelles, intellectuelles et religieuses. L’\u00e9tablissement de l’Eglise Anglicane fut un acte autant politique que religieux, qui introduisit une nouvelle hi\u00e9rarchie des pouvoirs en Angleterre et, surtout, facilita l’\u00e9tablissement d’une culture politique extr\u00eamement favorable au capitalisme, \u00e0 la vision \u00e9conomiste du monde et \u00e0 la puissance financi\u00e8re britannique d’une part, \u00e0 la vision imp\u00e9rialiste britannique d’autre part. L’Eglise Anglicane apporta \u00e0 l’Angleterre un soutien religieux implicite aux conceptions capitalistiques et \u00e0 l’affirmation du supr\u00e9matisme anglo-saxon qui allaient appara\u00eetre \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque moderne. Si cette Eglise devient minoritaire dans sa pratique, l’influence devrait suivre. L’establishment<\/em> britannique se sent-il encore assez fort pour accepter une force comme le catholicisme, dont la hi\u00e9rarchie \u00e9chappe \u00e0 son contr\u00f4le politique?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhile it can rightly point to the weight of history, the importance of cultural memory, the largest number of church buildings and nominal church members in defence of its continued status as the established church, there is clearly a problem emerging, said Prof McGrath, one of Anglicanism’s most respected figures.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhat happens if the established church becomes a minority church?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe Catholic Church has also suffered a serious fall in the size of its congregations, but the expansion of the European Union in 2004 resulted in its numbers being bolstered by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAttendance at Mass in 1991 was recorded as 1.3 million, a drop of 40 per cent since 1963. But over the past six years it has fallen by only 13 per cent, with the rate of decline slowed by immigrants from Catholic countries.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 24 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 01H15<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On attendait depuis longtemps la conversion de Tony Blair au catholicisme. Elle a eu lieu le 21 d\u00e9cembre au soir, lors d’une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie priv\u00e9 \u00e0 Westminster, par le Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor en pr\u00e9sence de sa femme Cherie qui parrainait sa conversion. 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