Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Center - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:10:59 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Center - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Closed progressive Catholic community in Paris demands meeting with archbishop https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/04/22/closed-progressive-catholic-community/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:50:58 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=135560 Members of a recently closed-down, progressive Catholic community in central Paris have called for a meeting with Archbishop Michel Aupetit after the French prelate publicly accused them of anti-evangelical behavior. The archbishop, who on March 1st closed the Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Center (CPHB) at the Parish of Saint-Merry, told a Catholic radio station the center's members Read more

Closed progressive Catholic community in Paris demands meeting with archbishop... Read more]]> Members of a recently closed-down, progressive Catholic community in central Paris have called for a meeting with Archbishop Michel Aupetit after the French prelate publicly accused them of anti-evangelical behavior.

The archbishop, who on March 1st closed the Halles-Beaubourg Pastoral Center (CPHB) at the Parish of Saint-Merry, told a Catholic radio station the center's members had treated him unfairly.

"They beat me up because things unworthy of the Gospel are happening at Saint-Merry, and I have been called a fascist!" he said on April 17 during an interview on Radio Notre-Dame.

The comments angered members of the forcibly closed pastoral center.

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