Unnamed chaplain of the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment #wingnut thecatholicherald.com
A[…]French presidential candidate has called for the removal and imprisonment of a military chaplain[…]after a video surfaced of the priest stating that “leftists” should calm down. The chaplain, who has not been officially named, was speaking in a homily to the 3rd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment of Carcassonne on October 7, 2025
Speaking at Carcassonne’s Saint-Michel Cathedral, the priest urged the soldiers to “have courage” and criticised the French establishment as being “incompetent”. The video appears to have been recorded clandestinely[…]
“I say this because we are with our family and no one is recording,” the priest said in the video, where he described the men and women “who died so that France would be a beautiful country, so that architects could continue to build basilicas, cathedrals, cities, fortified castles"
“And instead of putting knights, we put incompetents. We put people who eat seed, people who lecture everyone, ideologues"[…]
"I encourage you, my dear friends, to continue to fight, to continue to have the courage of your convictions, as I am trying to do at this Mass," he added. "It's up to you to say: 'Calm down leftists, shhh, breathe through your nose!'”
He encouraged those present to “Keep fighting. Keep having this courage. Keep having this faith. Otherwise, we will be ridiculed”
“Otherwise, this beautiful country that is France will be mocked, and others will take our place. It is the law of the strongest that will reign. And others will take the place of our values”
Franceinfo reported that the Ministry of the Armed Forces considered the remarks to have been “inappropriate”, stating that there were “obligations of reserve and political neutrality imposed on all members of the institution, including military chaplains"
The publication stated that the priest had apologised publicly at the end of his homily and at the end of the Mass, as well as “in writing to the elected officials who had shown their disapproval”