[3] Beginning in 1986 he served five years as an army paratrooper based in Tarbes,[4] taking part in missions in Chad, Central Africa and Iraq.

[2] After an attack on an Islamic reading room in his diocese, where anti-Muslim sentiment is strong, he said:[5] We cannot claim Christian identity if we do not seek peace, fraternity, openness to others.

Because, alongside the defense of these external signs, Corsica is experiencing a real crisis of transmission of the faith.The Bishops' Conference of France elected him as an alternate delegate to the 2015 Synod on the Family.

On the Synod's consideration of access to the sacraments for those who are divorced and attempted remarriage, he underlined its insistence on accompaniment and individual histories, adding that "it was already being done but perhaps not enough: one can be divorced-remarried and have responsibilities in the Church.

"[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he supported the government's restrictions on gatherings, but protested when its relaxation of its confinement policy ignored the recommendations of the French bishops in anticipation of the public celebrations of Pentecost.

[5][10] In an interview with Corse-Matin, when asked about the Church's opposition to condoms, he said that "[s]he has something more profound to tell young people about the beauty of sexuality than essentially hygienic discourse."

Commenting on clerical celibacy, he remarked that his relationship to God as a cleric can be on the "same order as a loving relationship [marriage]" and offered an indirect defence of the Latin Church's practice of mandatory celibacy by mentioning the struggles married Eastern Church clergy had confided to him.