Itinéraires (magazine)
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Itinéraires: Chroniques et documents was a French traditionalist Catholic magazine founded in March 1956, and directed by Jean Madiran until its demise in 1996. Originally a monthly magazine, it became a quarterly in 1988.
Contents
History
Foundation
The magazine was born following the publication in 1954–55 of two pamphlets by Madiran, They don't know what they're doing, and They don't know what they're saying, by NEL. These are two charges against progressive Catholic circles, their magazines[lower-alpha 1] and their leaders.[lower-alpha 2] Madiran criticized them for ignoring the corporatist dimension of the Church's social doctrine — their magazines let their Catholic readers "ignore even the name, even the denomination of the social order recommended by the Church", he wrote — and he denounced their philocommunism. The introductory statement published in the first issue in 1956 affirmed fidelity to the Pope and the Church, as well as strong anti-communism: "Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life. We agree that fidelity in doctrine and unity of discipline can only be maintained under the authority of the pope and the bishops in union with the pope. We agree on the identification of the greatest temporal peril of our time: the advertising, ideological, political, military and police apparatus of Soviet communism. We agree on the first temporal emergency, (...) the political struggle against the international communist organization and its dependencies".
Contributors
Madiran obtained the agreement of friends and acquaintances when founding the magazine: Louis Salleron, Marcel Clément, Henri Charlier and the man of letters Henri Pourrat promised regular collaboration without waiting to read the first issue, while Admiral Gabriel Auphan, Henri Massis, Marcel De Corte and Jean de Fabrègues "only agreed to the principle of occasional collaboration". Henri Rambaud also contributed regularly to the magazine with his chronicle of difficult times. A special issue was published to mark his death in 1974. Salleron and Admiral Auphan were among the members and founders of the "Compagnons d’Itinéraires" (Itinerary Companions) association, founded in 1962 to provide financial support for the magazine.
Among those who wrote for Itinéraires were a number of clergymen (Victor-Alain Berto, Raymond Dulac, Roger-Thomas Calmel, Édouard Guillou). Also contributors to the daily Présent (François Brigneau, Hugues Kéraly and Bernard Antony, who co-founded the paper with Madiran, Georges-Paul Wagner, Francis Bergeron, Yves Daoudal, Alain Sanders, Christian Langlois, Jacques Ploncard d'Assac), Alexis Curvers, André Charlier, Gustave Thibon, Hyacinthe Dubreuil, Luc Baresta, Jacques Perret, Jean Dumont, Judith Cabaud, novelist Michel de Saint Pierre, Thomas Molnar, François Natter, Georges Laffly, Jean-Baptiste Morvan, Jean Crété, Luce Quenette, Louis Jugnet, François Saint-Pierre and others.
The magazine also published articles by foreign traditionalists, such as the Brazilian Gustavo Corção and Charles De Koninck. Other contributors included men from the left who had become anti-Communist and Catholic (Henri Barbé, Georges Dumoulin, Georges Sauge, Achille Dauphin-Meunier). In March 1975, Itinéraires organized a meeting with her traditionalist collaborators and former leaders of French Algeria (General Raoul Salan, Colonel Antoine Argoud).
Editorial line
The magazine criticizes progressive Catholics, such as Jesuit Pierre Bigo, director of the magazine L'Action populaire and the Latin American Institute for Doctrine and Social Studies. In 1966, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, the French episcopate warned Catholics against Itinéraires and other like-minded periodicals, which amounted to a condemnation. The communiqué issued on June 27 by the permanent council of the episcopate warned against "a minority [which], with a boldness that is asserting itself, is challenging, in the name of fidelity to the past, the principles of renewal undertaken by the Council. The magazine denounced the post-conciliar reforms. It successively engaged in the battle over the catechism, the battle over the traditional Mass, and finally in support of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, at least until the latter's break with Rome.
This magazine of reflection not only addressed religious themes, but also political issues (nationalism, socialism, communism, the Algerian War), social issues (corporatism, education), international issues (Chile in the 1970s), historical issues and more.
All issues of the magazine are published on CD-ROM.
Itinéraires collection
Madiran directed the Itinéraires collection published by Nouvelles Éditions latines. It published texts by Madiran, the magazine's main contributors, and other authors such as Amédée d'Andigné and Claude-Joseph Gignoux.
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Such as La Vie catholique illustrée, Témoignage chrétien, Esprit, etc.
- ↑ For instance, Georges Hourdin, Pierre Boisselot and Émile Gabel, editor-in-chief of La Croix, etc.
Citations
References
- Bugnini, Annibale (2015). La réforme de la liturgie (1948-1975). Paris: Desclée de Brouwer.
- Camus, Jean-Yves; René Monzat (1992). Les Droites Nationales et Radicales en France. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon.
- Madiran, Jean (1968). L'hérésie du XXe siècle. Paris: NEL.
- Madiran, Jean (1974). Réclamation au Saint-Père. Paris: NEL.
- Madiran, Jean (1983). Éditoriaux et chroniques, tome I: De la fondation d'Itinéraires à sa condamnation par l’épiscopat (1956-1966). Bouère: Editions Dominique Martin Morin.
- Pelletier, Denis (2002). La crise catholique: Religion, société, politique en France (1965-1978). Paris: Payot.
