In 1938, de Gaulle became a subscriber to the recently founded Christian Democratic newspaper Temps présent. Christian Democracy, which had sought since the nineteenth century to reconcile the values of democracy and Catholicism, was not part of his ideological inheritance – unlike the social Catholic traditions of the Nord. What presumably attracted him to the Christian Democrats at this time was the fact that their anti-Nazism was leading them to oppose appeasement of Germany. For de Gaulle this was the issue of the day, leading him in potentially new political directions.
