Hybrid Schooling

Catherine Field

Religion usually makes news in France when the state invokes its stern policy of "laïcité."

This is the country, as we read again and again, with laws that ban crucifixes and Islamic headscarves in state schools and outlaw the full-face Muslim veil in public streets.

Yet here I am sitting in the front row at a Catholic lycée surrounded by Muslims, Christians and non-believers, as the bishop of Versailles blesses the pupils and the building and reads to the new pupils from the gospel of Matthew: "You are the light of the world. ..."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 27, 2010 3:40 AM
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