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Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vatican official warns
European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of
the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7986528/Muslims-will-become-majority-in-Europe-senior-Vatican-official-warns.html
By Simon Caldwell
Published: 2:48PM BST 07 Sep 2010
While many European Catholic bishops often defend the rights of
Muslims to worship publicly others are more keen to protect the
Christian heritage of their continent
Italian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among
indigenous Europeans combined with an unprecedented wave of Muslim
immigrants with large families could see Europe becoming dominated by
Islam in the space of a few generations.
"The challenge must be taken seriously," said Father Gheddo, of the
Vatican's Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
"Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to
everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a
year because of abortion and broken families – while among the more
than 200,000 legal immigrants a year in Italy, more than half are
Muslims and Muslim families, which have a much higher level of
growth."
He said: "Newspapers and television programmes never speak of this.
However, an answer must be given above all in the religious and
cultural fields and in the area of identity."
The priest blamed Christians for failing to live up to their own
beliefs and helping to create a "religious vacuum" which was being
filled by Islam.
He predicted that Islam would "sooner rather than later conquer the
majority in Europe".
"The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and
the religious vacuum is inevitably filled by other proposals and
religious forces," he said.
Father Gheddo also said that Christians who lapsed were also making
themselves vulnerable to attacks by secularists.
He said when "religious practice diminishes in Christian Europe and
indifference spreads, Christianity and the Church are attacked".
"If we consider ourselves a Christian country, we should return to the
practice of Christian life, which would also solve the problem of
empty cradles," he added.
The comments of Father Gheddo come just months after a Czech cardinal
also blamed lapsed Catholics for the Islamisation of Europe.
On his retirement as Archbishop of Prague earlier this year, Cardinal
Miloslav Vlk said Muslims were well placed to fill the spiritual void
"created as Europeans systematically empty the Christian content of
their lives".
He said that unless Christians woke up to the threat to their culture
they would soon find they no longer have the strength to make their
mark on society.
He called on Christians to respond to the threat of Islamisation by
living their own religious faith more observantly.
While many European Catholic bishops often defend the rights of
Muslims to worship publicly others are more keen to protect the
Christian heritage of their continent.
Last year Cardinal Jose Policarpo, the Patriarch of Lisbon, warned
Catholic women against marrying Muslims.
Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi has also urged the Italiangovernment to
give priority to Catholic migrants over Muslims in order to protect
his country's religious identity.
The Vatican has also opposed Turkey joining the European Union partly
because the Muslim country does not share the continent's Christian
heritage.
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