Cité catholique

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The Cité Catholique is a

Roman Catholic clergy in some of its meetings, the Cité catholique is not officially recognised by the Roman Catholic Church.[1]

It first took the name of Œuvres de la Cité Catholique (Works of the Catholic City) and then of Office international des œuvres de formation civique et d'action culturelle selon le droit naturel et chrétien (ICTUS, International Office of Works of Civic Formation and Cultural Action According to Natural Christian Law) before being known under the name Cité Catholique.

Minister of Housing and the City, before being forced to resign, and close to the Opus Dei, was trained by Cité catholique.[2][3][4]

History

An advance party of the Cité catholique arrived in Argentina in 1958, in the middle of the

Argentine military in the 1970s.[5]

Many members of the group had taken part in the pro-"French Algeria"

Franquist Spain and finally to Argentina.[5] Grasset arrived in 1962 in Buenos Aires to take charge of the Argentine branch of the Cité Catholique.[5]

Charles Lacheroy, a member of this group, was the first person to reflect on the reasons behind the 1954 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, which all but put an end to the Indochina War (1946–54). Roger Trinquier, who theorised the systemic use of torture in counter-insurgency in Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (1961), was also a member of this organisation.[5]

Along with Colonel

subversion".[5] According to Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky, "this conceived a protean, quintessential enemy who, rather than being defined by his actions, was seen as a force trying to subvert Christian order, natural law or the Creator's plan." According to Ousset, "the revolutionary apparatus is ideological before it is political, and political before it is military.[5]
"

Le Marxisme-Léninisme

In Le Marxisme-Léninisme, Jean Ousset wrote that Marxists could be combatted only by "a profound faith, an unlimited obedience to the

Battle of Lepanto "to save Europe from domination by the Turks."[5] Ousset's book also included a list of the papal bulls
condemning communism.

Colonel Jean Gardes arrived in Argentina in 1963.

death flights (dubbed "Crevettes Bigeard", or "Bigeard's Shrimps").[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b F. Venner, Extrême France, Grasset, 2006 (extract Archived 2007-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
  2. ^
    Green deputy
    , 6 June 2007 (in French)
  3. ^ Le cabinet très catholique de Christine Boutin[permanent dead link], RTL, 10 July 2007 (in French)
  4. ^ Christine Boutin nomme un directeur de cabinet formé par l'intégriste Cité catholique : Jean-Paul Bolufer, ProChoix (in French)
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Horacio Verbitsky in The Silence, extract transl. in English made available by openDemocracy: Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the "dirty war" Archived 2006-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, July 28, 2005
  6. ^
    Mefeedia

Bibliography and sources

External links

  • OAS
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