President of Scouts and Guides of France resigns blaming campaign by extreme right and the "dubious" sector of the Church
Scouts and Guides of France lose their president after controversy over inconsistency with the Catholic faith
Marine Rosset, elected in June, has resigned, citing external pressure. Since her appointment, her life and public stances—contrary to Church teaching—have generated controversy within the main French Catholic Scouting movement.
Marine Rosset, elected president of the Scouts and Guides of France last June, resigned on August 6. According to her statement to the newspaper La Croix, she made the decision due to "unsustainable pressure" from outside the movement, which she attributed to a "campaign" both political and personal, driven, she said, by the "extreme right" and by a "dubious" sector of the Church.
However, the Tribune Chrétienne website raises the fundamental question: why was a person whose positions and way of life openly oppose Church teaching chosen to lead a Catholic movement? It describes her appointment as "a structural contradiction between faithful Catholic witness and a confused, modern, and relativist ideology" and considers her failure predictable, since "a Catholic educational project cannot be built on the quicksand of moral subjectivism."
Rosset was elected with 22 votes in favor, 2 against, and 1 abstention. From now on, the position will be assumed by Vice President Pierre Monéger. The Scouts and Guides of France are the largest scouting association in the country, with more than 100,000 members.
The former president has always been clear about her personal choices: she is openly homosexual, in a civil union with a woman, the mother of a child conceived through assisted fertilization—with genetic material not belonging to the couple—a defender of abortion as a right, and politically active on the French left.
In an article on the case, Father Marie Philippe stated:
"It was not so much her open homosexuality or her leftist political activism that scandalized the Catholic faithful—the Church rejects no one—but rather her attempt to evolve the Church from a position that demands, on the contrary, the humility of fidelity. If dogmas become options to be reconsidered in each generation, what's the point of believing? Why sacraments, norms, or Tradition? Faith does not need occasional inventors, but faithful and rooted witnesses. The truth of Christ is not reformed, it is embraced. It does not adapt to the spirit of the times: it passes through them. Christians do not modify the Word of God to adjust it to their experience; "He allows himself to be transformed by it. This is true humility. And this is what Madame Rosset never understood."
The case has sparked a broader debate about doctrinal consistency in Catholic associations and movements. For some, his resignation is an opportunity to reaffirm that fidelity to the Church's truth is not subject to negotiation, and that defending it, with respect for people, is an act of charity also toward those who reject it or wish to modify it.
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