Henri du Passage
Henri du Passage SJ (5 April 1874 – 26 November 1963) was French Roman Catholic priest, theologian, writer and for many years director of the journal Études.
Biography
Henri Joseph Marie du Passage was born in the castle of Bezencourt, in Tronchoy (Somme), son of Gaston du Passage and Jeanne de Hau de Staplande, herself granddaughter of Louis de Hau de Staplande, deputy and then senator of the North.
He attended the Providence College in Amiens, then the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. In 1897, he was admitted to the Paris School of Mibes, from which he graduated as a civil engineer.
In 1900, he entered the Society of Jesus, and study philosophy and theology in Jersey, Maison Saint-Louis, where he was a classmate of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, then in Canterbury and Newhaven. He was ordained a priest in 1907.
He was then assistant to the chaplain of the Catholic Youth Association and chaplain at the private Lycée sainte Geneviève, then in Paris.
From 1912, he was attached to the Jesuit journal Études (or Etvdes), to which he contributed many articles. As an engineer, he was more often in charge of social questions.
He served during the World War I as a chaplain, before being taken prisoner. After his release, he returned to the journal Études, of which he was appointed director in 1919, following Father Léonce de Grandmaison. He tried to widen the audience of the journal beyond the circle of pure erudition, by making it a Catholic journal of general interest and an organ of religious culture, intended for both clergymen and laymen.
Under his impetus, theater and cinema sections were created, the bibliography section was considerably developed, and new collaborations gave Études a much wider audience, which reached the level of the Revue des Deux Mondes.
In 1933, he signed an agreement with the magazine Le Correspondant, which had a similar orientation, and whose publication ceased shortly afterwards. He assumed the direction of Études until 1935, at which time he preferred to leave it to Father René d'Ouince, while continuing his collaboration as an author of articles.
He was also the author of several works, devoted more particularly to sociology and social Catholicism.
Works
- L'Anticléricalisme français: Hier et demain (1924)
- Le Secret des loges: Commentaires sur les textes maçonniques (1924)
- Notions de Sociologie (1932; reprinted in 1946 as Notions familières de Sociologie)
- Morale et Capitalisme (1935)
- Socialisme et Catholicisme social (1938)
- Le Monde devient-il plus fraternel? Gestes et pensées (1940)
- Soixante ans d'effort allègre, le père Henri-Régis Pupey-Girard, 1860-1948 (1949)
Selected articles
- "Action Catholique et Action Politique," II, Études, Vol. CCXX (1935)
- "La Foi du Socialisme: L'Espoir en l'Homme Nouveau," Études, Vol. CCXXX (1937)
- "La Foi du Socialisme: Sa Croyance au Progrès," Études, Vol. CCXXX (1937)
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