800ème anniversaire de la "Magna Carta" consentie par le Roi John d'Angleterre à ses sujets et rédigée pour l'essentiel par les évêques, abbés et gens d'Église ( le gratin de la classe cultivée de l'époque)! C'est la racine de nos libertés "démocratiques" transmises par les féodaux et les businessmen anglais - en principe sans effusion de sang.
____ le paragraphe premier concerne les libertés de l'Église (catholique bien entendu)

LONDON — June 19 will mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta — the great charter of rights and freedoms drawn up by the abbots of England’s monasteries and the feudal barons of the English counties and presented to King John to sign.
Queen Elizabeth II will visit Runnymede (shown in photo) on the Thames, where the signing took place, and various ceremonies and commemorative events are planned around the country for the occasion.
But what most people perhaps do not recognize is the central role played by the Church in all of this.
Britain today is an increasingly secularized society, with Christianity regarded as an optional and old-fashioned viewpoint adopted by some people but not part of mainstream everyday life. Church attendance is low: Out of a population of some 57 million people, fewer than 2 million attend a Catholic or an Anglican church each week, according to the “Pastoral Research Centre Trust” from the Roman Catholic Church of England and “Statistics for Mission 2013” from the Church of England.
Materials offered to schools by the British Library to mark the Magna Carta anniversary focus on “Did the Magna Carta apply to women?” and whether or not people held under suspicion of terrorist activity are having their rights infringed. The library’s Magna Carta website offers material on “Magna Carta and Radicalism” and “Perceptions of King John in the 17th Century” (the Magna Carta was signed in the 13th) and “Magna Carta and My Digital Rights.”
There is no information on the Church’s role or on Christianity in Britain. The whole emphasis is on a secular approach, as if Christianity had no significant role to play.

Christian Elements
But what does the Magna Carta actually say?
It opens with a statement from King John, “before God,” stating that the charter has been drawn up “to the honor of God and the exaltation of the holy Church and the better ordering of our kingdom.”
It then lists all of the bishops and abbots who were responsible for drawing up the charter, beginning with the primate of England; Stephen, the archbishop of Canterbury; and including a member of the papal household, various bishops and various earls and barons. And then comes the first of the rights established by the charter: “That the English Church shall be free and shall have its rights undiminished and its liberties unimpaired.”
Today, Britain is suffering from a sort of cultural amnesia — as though Christianity had not shaped and formed our country’s culture for nearly 2,000 years, as though our saints and heroes, our language, folklore, names of streets, towns and cities, our nursery rhymes and pub signs, our jokes and sayings, our ideas and values all happened in a great void.


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