Where are you from Clovis? which languages are you able to read?
Cristian
I can read French badly...Im from Ireland.
He wasnt the Cardinal who was forced to resign by Pope Pius XI for his support for extreme French jingoism and neo-pagan barbarism or am I confusing him with someone else?
Yes, he is the same Cardinal. That story, as far as I can tell, is rather obscure, for instance, some say Billot resigned, other say he was forced to, etc.
Billot didn`t defend the errors of Maurras, he just, as far as I know, opposed to the opportunity of condemning "The French Action".
My personal opinion is that Pius XI was perfectly right on condemning that french movement, btw something Maurras himself recognized at his death bed, when receiving the last sacraments (he was very much devote during his life of Saint Therese of Lisieux, in spite of his paganism; he even had correspondence with Celine, one of the sisters of the Saint).
I think Billot`s mistake is understandable. He was French man and saw in that movement an opposition to the liberal republic.
Who knows!, in spite of all this Pius XII himself said in an allocution that Billot was a model of theologian and he was the favourite theologian of Saint Pius X.
I read Maritain`s "Primacy of the Spiritual", a book defending Pius XI`s condemnation and I think is quite good.
Cristian