While the Citizen Convention, installed at the request of the Elysée, is preparing to start its work, Friday, December 9, the thought of the Head of State on the subject remains unfathomable.
by Claire Gatinois and Béatrice Jérôme
Emmanuel Macron went to Rome as we would go to Confess. This Monday, October 24, he enters the golden golden sun in the apostolic palace for an audience with Pope Francis, the third since his arrival at the Elysée. Between the two men, a proximity, intellectual, emotional, almost a bond has settled over the years. The French president is tutoring Argentinian, kisses him. Enough, no doubt, so that the Head of State relieves his soul with the Sovereign Pontiff.
A subject Taraude Emmanuel Macron for weeks, months and even years. The president wants to pour out on the thorny file of the end of life. The debate opens in France with the installation of the Citizen Convention, December 9.
The head of state is struggling, more and more, to hide his discomfort. This October 24, the papal hearing is coming to an end when Emmanuel Macron launches. “On the subject of the end of life, I talked about initiative to the pope, telling him that I did not like the word euthanasia. Death is a moment of life, it is is not a technical act. I do not want to pre-empt the debate, sometimes simplified. We have seen it in the presidential campaign, including in our own majority. My death is me? This is an intimidating question, I Am not sure to have the answer, “he said in his return flight to a handful of journalists from the point, Figaro and life. A few days earlier, in front of elected officials from Cambrai (north) who came to the Vatican, Pope Francis recalled his hope of seeing a debate in France which “could be done in truth to accompany life to its natural end”, reports Vatican News.
Emmanuel Macron knows the position of the Church. So why this confidence? Did he want to deliver his disorder to the Jesuit? Ensure the Pope that he shares, in part, his reluctance? “The pope knows that I would not do anything,” he said from the presidential plane.
The head of state keeps in mind the scenario of marriage for all, orchestrated by his predecessor and anti-model, François Hollande. Repeats to him that he does not want to “humiliate” anyone, especially not Catholics. “Seeing the photos taken from him with Pope Francis in October, I find this attentive, very concentrated listening which was his, adolescent, towards people for whom he felt consideration, which led him to hear the arguments of the ‘Other, “says Father Philippe Robert, his professor of physics-chemistry in the second at the Jesuit Lycée de la Providence, in Amiens.
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