Rod Dreher

2 weeks ago | lucianne.com | Rod Dreher

Original ArticlePosted By: Judy W., 6/8/2025 6:37:59 PMI told you all that I would write Monday's newsletter at the end of Monday, Paris time, after I had been out in Chartres for the end of the pilgrimage. (Snip)I cannot remember the last time I wrote a story that made me so happy. I knew that I would like it in principle - young Catholics walking three days from Paris to Chartres, singing and praying all the way - but I had no real idea what to expect.

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

Pilgrims kneeling in prayer in the street outside St. Sulpice on Saturday morningI told you all that I would write Monday’s newsletter at the end of Monday, Paris time, after I had been out in Chartres for the end of the pilgrimage. Well, I lied. There’s just too much going on, and I want to write about it. I’m going to be strictly limited in what I say …

3 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

I promised I wouldn’t write again, but just a little postcard from Paris before bedtime. I passed that equestrian statue of Joan of Arc today, and thought how much better she looks not being molested by migrants, as she recently was by migrant types in a soccer riot:I’m not even French, but looking at that beautiful statue of the saint who is a national icon, I burned with anger at those barbarians who defiled her. But it was a great day, walking around Paris.

3 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

Hello all, I am writing this on Thursday night. I’m leaving very early on Friday morning for Paris, where I will be writing a magazine story about the annual Paris-to-Chartres walking pilgrimage, which concludes on Monday (Pentecost) with mass at the cathedral. Monday’s post will come to you late, because I want to share with you what I saw that day.

3 weeks ago | europeanconservative.com | Rod Dreher

Over coffee in Budapest recently, a visiting European lawyer told me her son had withdrawn as a student at Sciences Po—the familiar name for the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies—because he no longer felt safe there. The reason? An atmosphere of intimidation around pro-Palestinian activism, and antisemitism. The young man is a Christian, but he concluded that the Sciences Po administration had lost control of the situation and had no intention of restoring order.