DE-CHRISTIANIZATION/ISLAMIZATION
Why is this being done now?
Again, two reasons:
1) Europe is being de-Christianized beyond recognition and exposed to cultural and demographic islamization.
2) Over 400,000 Anglicans have requested full sacramental communion with the Holy See – the first time in centuries that an instance of mass conversion takes place.
What are the consequences of de-Christianization?
Two important witnesses: the Pope and his private secretary.
In July 2005, in the course of an impromptu address to some 140 priests of the Aosta diocese in Italy, Pope Benedict XVI referred to the widespread religious indifference that is rampant in Europe and the Western society in general. He said that “The so-called great churches seem to be dying, especially in Australia and Europe, but not so much in the United States”. The Catholic Church was not excluded from his mention of the ‘dying churches’ in Australia and Europe.
But the death of the great churches does not leave a vacuum. When religion and culture disappear, other religion(s) and culture(s) take their place. Thus, which culture and religion are making great strides in Europe and most of the West today?
Islam.
Last year, the German theologian and personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, Fr. Georg Gänswein, alerted the international community about the threat of the islamization of Europe. He declared to the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung (26 July 2007): “One must not ignore the attempts to Islamize Europe, and the Catholic Church clearly sees this danger. This kind of attitude may present a risk for European identity.”
Therefore, our conclusion: If Europe and the Christian West are to survive as Christian and as Western in this new millennium, with any hope of repelling the Islamization of European culture, the reunification of Christians is necessary.
About four years ago, we were talking to a priest at the Vatican Secretariat of State. He did not hide his deep concern about the future of the old continent: he said that ‘either Europe remains somewhat Christian, or it will become Moslem. We cannot live together in peace’. Of course: ecumenism with Islam does not work. They want world supremacy.
We would not be surprised if this somber perspective were among the reasons that led Pope Benedict XVI to call for a Year of Saint Paul, the great Gospel preacher.
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