Viennese Cardinal Christoph Schönborn warned recently at a
Mass for the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary that "Europe is well on the
way to forfeiting its Christian heritage".
"Will there be an Islamic conquest of Europe? Many
Muslims want that and say: Europe is at the end," he said during the Mass
in St. Stephen's Cathedral during a celebration for the Feast of the "Holy
Name of Mary."
This feast was introduced in gratitude for the liberation of
Vienna from Ottoman Muslim forces which were attacking Europe 333 years ago.
"God have mercy on Europe and with thy people, who are
in danger of forfeiting our Christian heritage," Schoenborn said in his
homily, according to the website of the Archdiocese of Vienna. This loss could
be felt, "not only economically, but above all, in human and religious
terms," preached the cardinal.
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