Thanks in large part to the abortion industry there is now the need for unending immigration (cheap labor). Meanwhile, abortion continues...and there is a growing chasm that seems to many to be irreconcilable... on this little continent which has been so blessed by the Creator, and so wounded by anti-Catholicism.
"The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. The one remaining problem that we have got to consider is where that religious solution is to be found. Must we look for some new religion to meet the new circumstances of the changing world, or does the Christian faith still supply the answer that we need? ...As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. To a far greater extent than science or philosophy, it has determined our attitude to life and the final aims of our civilization. Yet on the other hand we cannot fail to recognize that it is just this religious element in Western culture that is most challenged at the present day."
-Christianity and European Culture, by Christopher Dawson, p. 118.
Two things are interesting to note: There are alot of rich foreign muslims at Catholic Schools in the US, especially Jesuit schools. Many of them are of nobility or from wealthy magnate type families. This is an opprotunity for conversion, but... secularism usually gets them first. Our Lady of Fatima is the key to conversion of Mohammadeans. Her story should be told over and over in this day and age.
ReplyDeleteThe most suprising thing to me was last summer I saw two muslim girls evangelizing on the street in Spokane, Wash. The conversation got started when a guy (we were waiting at a crosswalk) asked them about their headcoverings.
Part of the problem in Europe, aside from the issue of abortion, is a warped "political correctness"-and on the part of the Catholic Church, a warped sense of ecumenism and dialog.
ReplyDeleteEuropean governments and the Catholic bishops have bent over backwards to accomodate these Muslims (if that's what this woman is, and I suspect it is). As a result, rather than standing up for traditional Catholic-Christian values ( and it's pointless to engage Protestants in the effort to promote Christian identity and history or values in the face of the wave of Muslims immigrating because Protestants have no Christian culture or sense of it), the Catholic bishops...INCLUDING POPE BENEDICT XVI AND JOHN PAUL II BEFORE HIM...have promoted immigration and justice for these Muslims in the countries in which they live. This has only . And to push for their rights to build mosques, minarets ( fortunatly struck down in Switzerland by a largely Catholic backlash against them. Mostly with no help from Catholic bishops or the Pope, who on occasion in speeches re. immigrants appeared to side with the Muslims!! Typical.
In Italy, the demonstrations and uproar in favor of the Crucifix and against rulings to remove in public places was a magnificent sign that despite Vatican II, Catholics are proud of and want to be Catholics.
By the way, the uproar about the Crucifix in public places wasn't started by a Muslim...but by a Protestant Lutheran living in Italy who thought her daughter was being contaminated. So she sued.
So much for ecumenism with Protestants!
Read America Alone by Mark Steyn if you haven't. It's an amusing look at the demographic crisis.
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