Haïm Korsia: the Chief Rabbi of France who wants to re-enchant the Republic
Haïm Korsia, re-elected “Chief Rabbi of France”, in Paris, June 6, 2021. © THOMAS SAMSON / AFP
By: Geneviève Delrue
2 min
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World Religions - Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 11.10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Paris Time
Major interview with Haïm Korsia
on the occasion of his re-election for a second term of seven years.
Reelected on June 6, 2021, in the first round with 74.4% of the vote, Haïm Korsia presented himself as a unifier of all currents of Judaism and well beyond.
The religious leader, former Israelite chaplain general of the armies also intends to contribute with the other religions to nourish a collective hope through the republican dream rediscovered.
Francis, the reforming pope in the middle of the ford
.
On March 13, 2013, the cardinals elected Francis to fundamentally reform the Church.
With authority and a methodology specific to the Jesuits, Pope Francis embarked on a vast program of reforms which met with strong resistance.
In his detailed investigation
"The Pope who wanted to change
the Church" (Presses du Chatelet)
, the journalist and Vaticanist
Frédéric Mounier
looks
back on a pontificate under pressure and draws in dotted lines the legacy that Francis will leave.
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