Catholic Church and the Vichy France (1940-1944)
 "If We had remained victorious, we would probably have remained  the  prisoners of our errors.  Through being secularized, France was in danger of death."

                                                                            Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of LyonPetain and the Archibishops
 

Church and State at Vichy. Emanuel Celestin Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop
of Paris, and Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gelier, Archbishop of Lyon, with Petain
and Laval at the entrance to the makeshift executive offices in Vichy's Hotel du
Parc.


The Vichy Government and the Catholic Church
 

Leaders of the Church
 

The Catholic Church and its Relation to the Jews and the Holocaust
 
 
 
 

 Sources

 Paxton, Robert.  Vichy France , 1982

Atkin, Tallett and Atkin, Nicholas. Religion, Society, And Politics in France Since 1989, 1991