In this Preface to Volume I of Brother Bruno’s monumental work, he details the most promising intuitions of the best Islamic scholars from the late 19^th century, who all abandoned their own insights. For Brother Bruno, the only way for Islamology to break out of this vicious circle in which it finds itself is to move forward boldly on the road opened by his predecessors, following the method that their intuitions prescribe. He then sets out the principles that will govern his exegetical and historical study of the Qurʾān.

To date, Brother Bruno has published three volumes of his study on the Qurʾān. He illustrated their respective covers with a key expression taken from the sūrahs that are analysed in the volume, superimposing the Arabic on the original Hebraic or Aramaic expression from which the author of the Qurʾān derived his Arabic expression.

Despite John Paul II’s commitment in favour of human right and his liberalism, Father de Nantes wanted to believe in a restoration of the Church, the fruit of John Paul I’s sacrifice. Unfortunately, the Pope’s conciliar orientation impelled our Father to bring a new Book of Accusation to Rome in 1983, against his doctrinal errors, schismatic acts, and scandals.

A happy concert between Church and State that had been the prerogative of past centuries is willed by God for the temporal and eternal good of peoples. The Church supports civil legislation by the wisdom and the strength of her morality, the State assures her development and her protection against any public manifestation of religious or ideological error.

The universal human brotherhood has already been won for all men by right, whilst it waits to be lived out by them in fact in the Church through faith. Following the example of Father de Foucauld, “the universal brother,” the Phalangist condemns all ideologies and political systems that advocate racism. He only aspires to the restoration of Christendom.

Father de Nantes always said that “nothing holy or decisive in the Church was ever accomplished without Rome, outside of Rome, or against Rome; when Rome wishes, the Renaissance will come”. John Paul I was the Pope of this Renaissance, who wanted to satisfy the demands of Our Lady of Fatima in an act of obedience and filial love towards Her Immaculate Heart.

Brother Bruno’s letter to Archbishop Pontier contains so well-reasoned arguments that the Church hierarchy has been unable to make any serious objection to them. A Catholic priest “deplores Rome’s silence.”

He is risen ! n° 203 - November 2019

In addition to denouncing the ruinous conciliar innovations and warning the faithful against the integrist schism, Father de Nantes applied himself to devising new dogmatic expositions intended to prepare the renaissance of the Church. With a view to bringing about a reconciliation with Rome, Father de Nantes met Cardinal Marty and Archbishop Etchegaray, in Paris.

Brother Bruno reveals to the participants of the annual Catholic Counter-Reformation Congress that a bishop has had the courage to react to the memorandum he had sent to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.