Posted on 08/13/2026 6:48:57 PM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Marian Eleganti, in an interview published Thursday, said that Islam cannot be integrated into Western political systems that the Christian faith has shaped.
During the interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published August 13, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, emphasized that it’s impossible for Islam to be integrated into the Western world, which holds Christian foundations. The bishop further highlighted the “anti-Christian” agenda of both Islamists and modernism and the dangers of mass migration into Europe.
“Personally, I am convinced that Islam cannot be integrated into our political systems, which have been shaped by Christianity,” Bishop Eleganti said during the interview.
“There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam, one of purely internal religious devotion. It is a system of domination. And the more its followers are convinced of this, the less it can be integrated. The result is parallel worlds,” he added.
During another part of the interview, the Italian outlet cited a 2017 Pew Research Center report that projected that by 2050 there will be 57.9 million Muslims in Europe, accounting for 11.2% of the population. The interviewer also noted that while the Muslim population is steadily growing in Europe, the native population, which primarily includes at least nominal Christians, is declining.
Eleganti stressed that this is a result of European Christians having “far too few children of our own” and compensating by importing Muslim migrants. Asked about how the Catholic Church has responded to this mass migration, the bishop underscored that the hierarchy refuses to see the reality of the situation.
“(The Church) refuses to see things as they really are and speaks only of charity — against which there is nothing to object. But that doesn’t solve the problem,” he said. “A father who wants to help orphaned children and already has two of his own must still assess whether he can afford to adopt another child.”
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“His love for his neighbor is expressed in a reasonable way. He evaluates whether the child can be integrated into the existing family, both from a human-psychological and a financial standpoint,” he added. “One too many adoptions could place a heavy burden on the family and perhaps even put it at risk. Those who cannot provide for a child cannot adopt. Any child understands this.”
Pope Leo XIV’s pro-migrant rhetoric
Indeed, Pope Leo XIV and other prominent Catholic prelates have taken numerous opportunities to praise and only highlight the dignity of migrants while largely ignoring the Church’s full teaching on immigration.
While the Church affirms that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, as the Holy Father suggested, it also notes that a country has a right to secure its borders. In the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) “Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples,” the conference outlines that countries are under no obligation to accept all who wish to enter.
In particularly egregious remarks during the pontiff’s June visit to Spain, he praised migration into Europe, days after a migrant from Muslim-majority Sudan attacked and attempted to behead a man in Northern Ireland.
Just under two months later at the end of July, 50,000-60,000 migrants swarmed into the small Spanish territory of Ceuta illegally from the predominantly Islamic Moroccan border.
During the reckless surge, at least 86 people died, mostly by drowning while trying to swim onto the Spanish shores.
READ: Horror invasion unfolding as tens of thousands of Moroccans swarm Spanish enclave
The Daily Mail reported at the time that the situation even led to unrest in the streets, with locals taking to the streets to protest and push back the trespassers.
“Many were seen waving Spanish flags and screaming at them,” the Mail reported. “As a group of migrants were seen running away, a loud police siren was heard in the background.” The National Police union Jupol issued a statement bemoaning the “clear lack of personnel and material resources” to deal with the situation.
‘Anti-Christian agenda’ of Islam, modernism
A bit later in the interview, Eleganti compared Islam with “neo-Enlightenment modernism,” which has also spread throughout Europe. He stressed that despite being different ideologies, they both have an “anti-Christian agenda” in common.
“What (these ideologies) have in common is an anti-Christian agenda. We must pray and place our trust in God,” the bishop said. “Ultimately, this is a supernatural struggle: on the one hand, the Incarnation of God and the revelation of truth; on the other, the constant and ever-new Luciferian inventions that seduce humanity. The latter aim for an earthly and political kingdom. God, however, wishes to reign in hearts.”
Asked how the Church’s focus on issues like migration, dialogue, poverty, and ecology has “emptied seminaries,” Eleganti concluded the interview by lamenting that Pope Francis had begun moving the Church in this direction.
“Jesus says clearly: ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ Therefore, the Church should not constantly speak as if the kingdom of God were of this world,” he said. “Our task is not the same as that of politicians.”
“The Church has been speaking out on these (social) issues for decades. We don’t need a constant stream of new documents on the subject,” he added. “What matters to us is the salvation of souls. The Gospel contains all the answers. Ultimately, things are simple. An excess of words and complexity is not a sign of a divine solution. Our solution is Jesus. That is what we must offer the world — nothing else. It’s that simple.”
Other prelates’ criticism of mass Islamic migration
Several other Catholic prelates have similarly criticized the mass migration of Muslims into Europe in recent years. In a recently resurfaced clip from 2025, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, noting the mass influx of Muslim migrants into Europe, emphasized that many of these people are not refugees and that the “mass Islamization” of Europe is part of a plot by the “powerful” to destroy Christianity in Europe.
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“Now we are witnessing an invasion. They are not refugees — no — this is an invasion of the mass Islamization of Europe,” the bishop said in the clip. “And so this is a global political agenda by the powerful of the world: to destroy Europe culturally and religiously — to destroy Christianity ultimately in Europe.”
This story has been updated.
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People are catching on, if late.
I’ve been beating the drum since 9/11.
1500 years of Islam saying they want to conquer the west and KILL all infidels. They have been telling us their goals the whole time. Of course it can’t be integrated in to the “west.”
Islam is a vile cancer and is totally unsuited for a modern civilization.
OOOH, Leo gonna be mad at him!!!
Leo and all the other ‘Francis-Kins’. (if you will pardon the pun.)
The term “islamophobia”, then, is to be rejected out of hand, as illogical nonsense, at best, and, at worst, and more or less realistically, propaganda, specifically shaped or designed to damage and topple the society of the “Sunday People”.
The next step for Bishop Eleganti is to begin boldly advocating the prompt and utter purging from America of anything that promotes or reflects the influence of political Islam (yes, Islam it 100% political, so that phrase is repetitive).
Not in agreement with pope frank 2.0.
Bishop Eleganti will eventually realize that Western society is naturally Christian, and that we need a certain three- or four-word word amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will not thrill those among us who are sometimes politely referred to as Christ’s ethnic kinsman.
>Leo and all the other ‘Francis-Kins’. (if you will pardon the pun.)
I’d like to, but no, that’s not accurate. Nor are they Canis Domini. They are entirely egotistical, “Je suis” if you want a pun.
bmk
Look at how welcoming they are to Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. Whey Western nations allowed them to immigrate to us is a mystery without a good explanation.
That’s why I called it a “pun”... although perhaps there is a better word than “Pun” for my word play, and I just can’t think of it now.
Yes, I knew that Bergoglio was a Jesuit.
Correct. Islam is 7th century desert-tribal marxism. Islam's state-violence, social-control and justifications for oppression would make Lenin and Stalin blush.
After 1400 years of aggression against Christianity and the west I would hope we get it.
Un bon mot. I have a soft spot for St. Francis tho and also couldn’t resist the chance for a double word attack in Latin and French.
Correct. Read History.
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st, and most recent, ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It met in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City from 10/11/1962 to 12/08/1965, during the pontificates of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.
Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 16 (Light of the Nations), Dogmatic Constitution - November 21, 1964
The Moslems, “professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who at the last day will judge mankind” (Lumen Gentium 16 - the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church on "the universal call to holiness").
Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate 3 (In Our Time), Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - October 28, 1965
Though the Islamic faith does not acknowledge Jesus as God, it does revere Him as prophet,and also honors His virgin mother. Moslems “prize the moral life, and give worship to God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting” (Nostra Aetate 3). Noting that there had been many quarrels and hostilities between Christians and Muslims, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) urged that all “forget the past and strive sincerely for mutual understanding, and, on the behalf of all mankind, make common cause of safeguarding and fostering social justice, moral values, peace, and freedom” (Nostra Aetate 3 - a declaration about non-Christian religions).
Catechism of the Catholic Church - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
CCC (paragraph) 841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims.
“The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
12/27/1983: Pope John Paul II visited Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who had attempted to assassinate him, in Rome’s Rebibbia prison.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid (above – on the left) affirmed that he was present at the Vatican when John Paul II kissed the Muslim "holy" book: "On May 14th (1999) I was received by the Pope, together with a delegation composed of the Shi'ite imam of Khadum mosque and the Sunni president of the council of administration of the Iraqi Islamic Bank. There was also a representative of the Iraqi ministry of religion. .... At the end of the audience the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book, the Qu'ran, presented to him by the delegation, and he kissed it as a sign of respect. The photo of that gesture has been shown repeatedly on Iraqi television and it demonstrates that the Pope is not only aware of the suffering of the Iraqi people, he has also great respect for Islam."
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