On August 15, a controversial ‘Prayer for France’ was read out at French Catholic churches as the Feast of the Assumption is celebrated, reviving a centuries old tradition. The text of the 2012 version has outraged gay rights groups in France.
All Catholic churches in France have received the text of the controversial “Prayer for France” with the intention that it is read out to congregations across France at church services marking the feast of the Assumption reports France 24.
The reason French gay rights activists are up in arms is that the subject matter of this year’s Prayer for France aims to mobilize Catholics against the French Socialist government of François Hollande’s recently announced plans to reform French family law as it applies to gay marriage and adoption. The proposed reforms would give gay couples in France the same rights as heterosexual couples.
In the distributed prayer, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, the Catholic Archbishop of Paris, asks churchgoers to pray for France’s “newly elected officials” to put their “sense of common good over the pressure to meet special demands”.
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