On the even of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a group of based French Catholics successfully defended their church in Nantes from being used to make money for a secular pop musician.
Echoing the Gospel story of the money changers in the Temple, these brave Catholics successfully orchestrated to sing hymns and show solidarity outside the Notre Dame de bon Port church in the city of Nantes.
The Mayor of Nantes, Bassem Asseh, has had the gall to condemn Catholics for defending their own church, stating that it impinged ‘freedom of expression’.
The booking of Swedish singer Anna von Hausswolff to play a Catholic church on the even of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is really quite bizarre, considering her music features such lyrics as:
These pills keep me alive
These pills keep me alive
Oh my love
I'm holding it
Caressing it.
Oh, I'm sick
The heat and cold.
The presence of a dual code.
I'm on the floor constantly, intensivley,
Making love.
I made love
I made love
With the devil
With the devil.
Oh I, I made love with the devil
With the devil.
Oh I, I made love with the devil
With the devil.
Oh I, I made love with the devil
With the devil.
Oh I, I made love with the devil
With the devil.
Devil
With the devil.
Devil.
With the devil.
Devil.
With the devil.
There is no reason to think that the civic authorities could not have arranged a more suitable non religious venue for this concert and had it pass off without trouble. To arrange it in a church on a normal day is offensive, to do so on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is an act of war.
French media outlets, panicked since the rise of politician Eric Zemmour, have condemned the Catholics, with Le Monde calling them ‘fundamentalist Catholics’ and others calling them ‘integralists’.
Mostly however, they were just young men and women who did not want to see their churches desecrated.
