Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe is going to die. What could be simpler?”
Nearly a century on, Bernanos’s bitter prophecy rings true. Christianity is once again becoming a minority religion in Europe, where empty church buildings beckon to Muslim communities whose mosques are overflowing. Pope Francis, unlike his predecessors, made disdain for Europe a hallmark of his reign. His complacency toward Muslim immigration suggests a belief that the Church’s future people will be African or Asian; Europe will no longer be Christian.
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