John Keiger, Author at Catholic Herald

John Keiger

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France’s complex relationship with religion

November 02, 2020

Commemorations are being held across France today in memory of the French school teacher, Samuel Paty, beheaded on 16 October by a radical Islamist for having shown cartoons of the prophet Mohammed to his pupils in a class on history and free speech. On 29 October, a radical Islamist murdered two worshippers and the church’s

Macron’s Lebanese gamble

September 03, 2020

One might be forgiven for thinking these days that that the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is moonlighting as President of Lebanon. Unlike the sovereign of the United Kingdom, French presidents are only heads of state over French territories, except as co-princes of Andorra (with the Spanish Bishop of Urgell). And yet only the day