The Furrow

the Furrow is a movement Politique and ideological French founded by Marc Sangnier (1873 - 1950). It aims at bringing the Catholicisme closer to the Republic by offering to the workmen an alternative to the movements of the left anticlerical.

History

In 1891, the pope Leon XIII preaches an opening of the Church on the company in his Encyclique Rerum Novarum. It is in the breach opened by this policy of rallying of the Church to the Republic that is born, in 1894, the Furrow, and the review of the same name, directed by Marc Sangnier.

Initially philosophical newspaper the Furrow becomes starting from 1899 a vast movement intended to reconcile the workmen and the Christianisme. It federates then just in 1905 the many “catholic circles of studies”, where young people and priests discuss religion, of company. Environment is new: the truth does not fall from the top, of the institution, it is the exchange which precedes. The popular passion is fast and massive: to 500.000 members in France. At that time the Furrow profits from the support of the pope Pie X and the French episcopate.

But too modernistic and republican compared to the remainder of the Church, traumatized in 1905 by the law of separation of the Church and the State, the movement is criticized more and more, in particular because he affirms the authority of the Christians on the Church and not that of the pope and the bishops. The Furrow is finally condemned by the pontifical letter of August 25th, 1910 Our apostolic load . It dissolves itself. In 1912 Marc Sangnier will found the Ligue of the Young Republic in the prolongation of this social Catholicism.

Ideas

Marc Sangnier presents it as follows: “The purpose of the Furrow is to carry out in France the democratic republic. It is thus not a catholic movement, in the sense that it is not a work of which the particular goal is to place itself at the disposal of the bishops and the priests to help them in their own ministry. The Furrow is thus a laic movement, which does not prevent that it is also a deeply religious movement.” (the Cross, 1905)

See too

External bonds

Study on the Furrow by Institute CIVITAS

Biography of Marc Sangnier

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