Brigitte Bardot Was Not Practising Catholic - Buried with Profane Music

The French actress and sex symbol of the 1960s, Brigitte Bardot, aged 91, was laid to rest on 7 January after a funeral Eucharist in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. Celebrated by the parish priest, the Novus Ordo service included mostly profane music, such as the score of Contempt, the 1963 Jean-Luc Godard film in which Bardot starred.

On 17 January, Jeanne Smits published an obituary on LifeSiteNews.com, correcting journalists who had one-sidedly referred to a 2024 interview in which Bardot described herself as a 'traditionalist', recalling the Mass of her childhood.

Denying Eternal Life

Bardot was not a practising Catholic. Although she called herself a believer, she wrote in her 2018 autobiography Larmes de combat (Tears of Battle): "It's the afterlife that's awful; what the body becomes is dirty. I don’t know if life after death exists. I don't know, and I don't necessarily hope that it does. What kind of mess could await us on the other side? We might as well sleep. Forever..."

Having turned her back on the Church, she nevertheless had a small chapel built on her La Madrague estate in honour of the Virgin Mary. She said of her: "She has protected me greatly in my life; otherwise I would no longer be here."

Bardot’s unfortunate legacy

The actress played a key role in popularising the sexual revolution in many countries around the world. She embodied sensuality, libertinage and the sexual revolution.

Her tragic life included two alleged abortions in Switzerland (from the age of 17), repeated marriages and divorces, and several suicide attempts (in 1960, she slit her wrists and nearly died).

Bardot never stopped denigrating motherhood: ‘It was like a tumour that had fed on me, that I had carried in my swollen flesh, waiting only for the blessed moment when it would finally get rid of me,’ she wrote in her 1995 autobiography. She would have preferred to "give birth to a little dog," said the animal rights activist.

As a public figure, she always proclaimed her support for legal abortion.

Bardot also supported the National Front and opposed Islam. Marine Le Pen attended her funeral, while French President Emmanuel Macron was told he was not welcome.

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