French Court Cancels Our Lady

An appeals court in Bordeaux, France, has ordered the municipality of La Flotte to remove a statue of Our Lady erected in 1983.

The statue was installed by a family after the Second World War in gratitude for the return of their father and son.

The court considered the statue a "violation" of the 1905 French law on the "separation of church and state" [= removing the church from public space].

Mayor Jean-Paul Héraudeau resisted the removal. French Catholic politician Karim Ouchikh, a convert from Islam, wrote on Twitter.com that his "heart bleeds when he sees how much our country denies its Christian roots."

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