Oath To France

France is at a critical point in its history something needs to change if we are to stay united as one France. As of now the national assembly wants to take away the church’s land and change the tradition of the Catholic Church in France. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy wants Church officials to be elected instead of appointed. Elections are not subject to papal confirmation which means that the new bishop may not apply to the pope for any form of confirmation. The new constitution states that the clergy must swear an oath to France first and God and the pope second. They want us to become loyal servants of the state instead of servants of God and the church. This is the direction that France is going in if the Civil Constitution of the …show more content…
Now they want to make us turn our back on the church. The national assembly wants us to take an oath swearing our allegiance to France before God. They want us to do what is in the best interest of France not what is right and just. The Clergy and the Catholic Church follow Gods teachings and his laws that he has set in place. Swearing this oath to France turns the church into a business of the state instead of a holy place of worship. France is falling apart the people have stormed the bastille they are killing each other for food. Soon they will take the government and set in place radical laws to benefit only themselves not France as a whole. When this happens we will be forced to follow what they put in place because we swore this oath to …show more content…
What the people don’t understand is that being a priest, bishop, or even pope it is not a job, but a calling by God to serve. Becoming a state employee is taking away rights from the clergy. In Title four of the civil constitution the law does not allow any bishop to be absent himself from the diocese more than two weeks consecutively. That is starting to sound a little tyrannical. Why is the government watching the church so closely monitoring them like a