Posted on 04/03/2019 5:38:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
'It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration'
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A cardinal is criticizing fellow Catholic leaders for promoting mass migration.
In an interview in Rome with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles, Cdl. Robert Sarah criticized Catholic leaders who use their authority to throw weight behind secular political causes. He told the magazine, "Today, many priests and bishops are literally bewitched by political or social issues."
Cardinal Sarah, the Vatican's chief liturgist, brought up the example of "men leaving their own country" — a reference to migration.
He returned to the subject of migration into Europe later in the interview, saying, "All migrants who arrive in Europe are penniless, without work, without dignity. ... This is what the Church wants? The Church cannot cooperate with this new form of slavery that has become mass migration."
"If the West continues in this fatal way," Cdl. Sarah warned, "there is a great risk that, due to a lack of birth, it will disappear, invaded by foreigners, just as Rome was invaded by barbarians."
"It is better to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to a Europe in full decadence," the Guinean cardinal opined. "It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration."
The cardinal's comments come as Pope Francis has continued to speak out against building border walls. During an in-flight press conference on March 31, the Pope posited, "Those who build walls will become prisoners of the walls they put up."
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Cardinal Sarah for Pope.
That would be an upgrade.
You better believe it!
Come Holy Spirit, send us Pope Sarah!
If only.
He needs to take it up with his boss.
....Yet, Cardinal Sarah has the “backing” “FROM the REAL BOSS.”
AND I am not talking about the one from NJ!
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