below tells the story of Vittorio Messori Frossardzie Andre, the famous French converts. An interesting philosophy of action adopted Frossard, building a "desktop" from which his voice could be heard.
"Very good, I understand Andre Frossard, a famous journalist and writer, member of the French Academy, who at the age of about sixty years and finally decided to write a book I met God. He was not even twenty years old when he "accidentally" entered into one of the chapels in Paris, which lasted cloistered sisters of the Eucharistic adoration. There, for a few minutes - but that was enough for all - has been pulled from behind the curtain, which sent bright living world behind the barrier. That experience prompted him to not only that he converted to Christianity, but that was one hundred percent Catholic, "papist", "ultramontanistą" as they used to say his time in France. Suddenly, atheism, who confessed to so far, it has become completely incomprehensible. Then he, the son of well-known deputy Ludovic Oscar, never nieochrzczonego, whose mother was Jewish, Protestant and his wife, the founder and first General Secretary of the French Communist Party, which from the first statute, preached atheism and dialectical materialism.
Over the years, being impressed by the mysterious events with unrelenting force, Andre Frossard lived as a Catholic, but privately, without obnoszenia with this, maintaining a few contacts with the clergy. Always worked in the great secular newspapers who published several books by no means religious, but rather on the social and political issues, published by secular publishing houses. About their faith and how they came to believe, he decided to say only when - as he himself confessed to me - "he had past." Because - he added - "before I showed that God exists, I had to prove that there is also the one who reaffirms faith in Him, that is to say that this is a rational person, a realist, and able to perform their work. " His problem was therefore to present himself as a believer worthy of credibility. He did not want to he was considered a visionary, haunting. There is no a priori rejection of his testimony, incomprehensible from a human point of view ("God is a matter of course, the fact is indisputable reality, and I met him), it needed a witness who, with their luggage full of professional life success would not be mistaken for the patient's psychiatric hospital. Therefore, said: "For years I wrote and spoke about everything, but little directly about religion. To prove that God is, first had to prove that I am . " I must admit that the good fruits brought this tenacious perseverance in the construction of the desktop, from which one could speak about the unspeakable is the whole sense of the word, not being recognized as a person crazy. As I mentioned, Frossard died, sitting "among the immortals" as it is called forty members of the French Academy, stools guarding against Catholics. Once the assembly has adopted a serious of which was not enough to believe in God, but who confirmed that he "met" ...
in an interview with Vittorio Messori-river "Why do I believe," p. 77
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