Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah, who works at the Vatican, doesn’t mince words when discussing the issue of mass migration.
In fact he denounces it as a “new form of slavery” and has harsh words for more liberal priests and bishops who use the Bible to advocate for mass migration:
FOX NEWS – A top African cardinal of the Catholic Church branded mass migration a “new form of slavery” and said those who seek to use the Bible to promote migration are pushing a “false” interpretation of the scriptures.
“It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these rifts,” Cardinal Robert Sarah said in a new interview with French publication Valeurs Actuelles.
Sarah, who serves as the head of the Vatican’s liturgy office, is often named in traditionalist circles as their hope to one day succeed Pope Francis. He’s frequently made waves with his more conservative stances on liturgical practices, Islam, migration and other issues.
Those positions were on full display in the French article, in which Sarah, from Guinea, blasted priests and bishops who “say fuzzy things, vague, imprecise, to escape criticism, and they marry the stupid evolution of the world.” On Europe, Sarah said that the Church should not cooperate with the increasing acceptance by politicians of mass migration into the traditionally Christian continent.
“All migrants who arrive in Europe are penniless, without work, without dignity…This is what the Church wants?” he asked. “The Church can not cooperate with this new form of slavery that has become mass migration. If the West continues in this fatal way, there is a great risk that, due to a lack of birth, it will disappear, invaded by foreigners, just as Rome has been invaded by barbarians.”
Sarah added: “My country is predominantly Muslim. I think I know what reality I’m talking about.”
Cardinal Sarah has just risen to the top of my list for the next Pope. He’s amazing, which probably means he won’t get it.
But I love his frankness on the topic. Sarah knows his history and how the Church, which once occupied the entirety of Asia Minor under the Roman empire, nearly disappeared thanks to the invading Muslim armies out of Persia.
And how Rome, over the millenia, was invaded multiple times and conquered by barbarians. The church has had to fight just to exist and he clearly sees mass migration as a threat to the Church’s existence.
Fox News contrasted Sarah’s position from the Pope’s more liberal position on mass migration:
But Sarah is much more skeptical of whether the Church should be open to immigration. He cited the example of Poland, a Catholic country that has strict immigration policies, and said he had urged it not to sacrifice its Polish and Catholic identities “on the altar of a technocratic and stateless Europe.”
“She is free to tell Europe that everyone was created by God to be placed in a specific place, with its culture, traditions, and history,” he told the paper. “This current desire to globalize the world by suppressing nations, specificities, is pure madness.”
And he also speaks about the threat from Islam:
In the interview, he urged Europe to avoid embracing materialism and forgetting its Christian heritage, warning that it could lead to the extinction of Europe itself.
“If Europe disappears, and with it the invaluable values of the old continent, Islam will invade the world,” Sarah said. “And we will totally change culture, anthropology, and moral vision.”
He’s exactly right about all of this and I’m glad he’s so outspoken on these issues. The world needs to hear the truth from the church!