L’Avenir

They founded L’Avenir (“The Future”), a journal advocating the separation of church and state. When Lamennais’s doctrines were condemned in 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI, the journal was suppressed. Lacordaire and his colleagues submitted, but Lamennais was later excommunicated.

…Revolution in 1830, Lamennais founded L’Avenir with Henri Lacordaire, Charles de Montalembert, and a group of enthusiastic liberal Roman Catholic writers. This daily newspaper, which advocated democratic principles and church-state separation, antagonized both the French ecclesiastical hierarchy and King Louis-Philippe’s government. And despite its ultramontanism, the paper also found little…

…political career with the newspaper L’Avenir (“The Future”), founded by the priest Félicité Lamennais in 1830, and the associated General Agency for the Defense of Religious Liberty. He helped found a Roman Catholic school in 1831, opposing the state monopoly that excluded the religious orders from teaching. The school was…