The Catholic daily La Croix gave much room to the event. In the editorial appearing yesterday in the front page, Michel Kubler entered the lay debate which is characterizing social and political life in France. "We don’t understand in the name of what danger wrote the editorialist, – religions as ensemble of values shared by the vast majority of the population should be imprisoned in the private spheres of families or vestries. Their much diversified contributions to the life of a nation justify the fact that the State acknowledges them". As for the words of Sarkozy on the relationships of the State with religions, Kubler wrote: "Religion is a great thing deserving neither honour excesses nor indignation".
