All spirituality is about loving life

Interview published in Le Figaro Madame on December 25, 2010 — Interview by Dalila Kerchouche — More than 3 million viewers have seen "Of Gods and Men," the film by Xavier Beauvois. Does this surprise success of 2010 reveal a thirst for...

The institution must be desacralized

Interview published in Le Nouvel Observateur on April 15, 2010 — The director of "Le Monde des religions" explains the historical resistance of Catholicism to modernity and calls for a thorough renovation — Le Nouvel Observateur. The scandal of...

We have forgotten the message of Jesus

Interview published in Psychologies Magazine June 2009 — Psychologies Magazine: You live on Rue de l'Abbaye, the bell tower of the St Germain des Prés church serves as your landscape and your apartment is the former library of a monastery: religion is a...

Why is the Vatican cutting itself off from the world?

Interview published in Télérama on February 12, 2009 — A brilliant but dogmatic theologian, often poorly advised, Benedict XVI reaches out to fundamentalists – including Bishop Williamson, who has just made Holocaust-denying remarks – and it is the entire community...

The voice of a wise man

Published in Le Nouvel Observateur on August 14, 2008 — Thousands of French people are turning to the "living Buddha" who is visiting us. A specialist in religions, Frédéric Lenoir deciphers the fascination exerted by this peaceful fighter. — Le Nouvel...