Rally
The Rally denotes the attitude of some of the Catholic French who, following the advice of Pope Leo XIII and his encyclical ( ), adhere to the Republic after 20 February 1892. However, membership does not mean acceptance of the legislation hostile to Catholicism, but simply a rally at the Republican system, in which Catholics are now working to put all their weight.
But the pope's authority on French Catholicism is limited, and most of the bishops and the Duke of Orleans (claiming Orleanist ) crying out for interference:
- The vast majority of Catholics and clergy refused to comply with it for years (well, for example, the members of La Rochefoucauld Sosthene II ( Duke of Doudeauville ), the Earl of Douville-Maillefeu or Count de Bernis ).
- Part of Catholics rallied to the Republic - as Count Albert de Mun and Jacques Piwi , leaders of the constitutional right of Parliament.
The political rally is changing the French political life:
- It gives a decisive boost to the movement of Christian Democracy.
- It allows the creation of a straight conservative Republican Catholic but embodied by the political party of the Republican Federation.
policy Rally by Lavigerie
The rally of 1892 was prepared by a statement from Lavigerie, archbishop of Algiers, the French officers receiving the November 12 1890 ("Toast of Algiers"):
"When the will of the people has clearly stated that the form of a government is nothing contrary, as Leo XIII proclaimed recently, the principles can live the Christian and civilized nations, where need for tearing his country to an abyss that threatens the membership without a second thought to this form of government, the time comes to sacrifice all that the conscience and honor permit, ordered everyone to sacrifice for love the homeland. [...] This is what I teach around me is what I wish to see imitated in France by all our clergy, and thus speaking, I am sure of being denied by any authoritative voice. "
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