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In the Church, video games are not well thought of": Father Monnier, a heavy metal-playing priest who is out of step
"It's not up to the Church to rule on popular culture, it knows nothing about it," says Father Bertrand Monnier.
Father Monnier, who is in charge of 28 parishes in the Meuse region of France, has just published his first book with the Catholic publisher Salvator: "The Ten Commandments of Video Games".
It is difficult to guess from the traditional celebration of his services that Father Bertrand Monnier, Parish priest of Verdun (Meuse), is a fan of metal music, video games as well as fantastic and medieval worlds. To realise this, you have to go through the door of the presbytery where the 43-year-old priest has been living since 2017. Amidst photographs of Pope Francis, the Bishop of Verdun or trinkets bearing the image of the Virgin Mary, one discovers a room entirely devoted to his passions: three super-equipped "gamer" computers sit surrounded by his heavy metal CDs, from Amon Amarth to The Offspring.
On the walls, posters of Heroes of Storm, Lord Voldemort or Middle Earth, the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, father of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Father Monnier, who is responsible for 28 church towers in his native Meuse department, has just published his first book with the Catholic publishing house Salvator: "Les dix commandements des jeux vidéo" (The Ten Commandments of Video Games). The eldest of a family of seven children in which "their parents are still polite", Bertrand Monnier fell into hard rock in the 6th grade when a friend put Guns N'Roses in his ears for the first time.
"It was a bad idea."
Continued below.
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"It's not up to the Church to rule on popular culture, it knows nothing about it," says Father Bertrand Monnier.
Father Monnier, who is in charge of 28 parishes in the Meuse region of France, has just published his first book with the Catholic publisher Salvator: "The Ten Commandments of Video Games".
It is difficult to guess from the traditional celebration of his services that Father Bertrand Monnier, Parish priest of Verdun (Meuse), is a fan of metal music, video games as well as fantastic and medieval worlds. To realise this, you have to go through the door of the presbytery where the 43-year-old priest has been living since 2017. Amidst photographs of Pope Francis, the Bishop of Verdun or trinkets bearing the image of the Virgin Mary, one discovers a room entirely devoted to his passions: three super-equipped "gamer" computers sit surrounded by his heavy metal CDs, from Amon Amarth to The Offspring.
On the walls, posters of Heroes of Storm, Lord Voldemort or Middle Earth, the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, father of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Father Monnier, who is responsible for 28 church towers in his native Meuse department, has just published his first book with the Catholic publishing house Salvator: "Les dix commandements des jeux vidéo" (The Ten Commandments of Video Games). The eldest of a family of seven children in which "their parents are still polite", Bertrand Monnier fell into hard rock in the 6th grade when a friend put Guns N'Roses in his ears for the first time.
"It was a bad idea."
Continued below.
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