Cardinal Robert Sarah
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In his latest book, "The Day is Not Far Spent," the acclaimed spiritual leader and best-selling writer, Cardinal Robert Sarah analyzes the profound spiritual, moral and political crisis in the contemporary world.
He calls this, his "most important work."
In it, he says that he "considers the decadence of our current age as having all the faces of mortal peril."
He says, "At the root of the collapse of the West, there is a cultural identity crisis. The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows...who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations."
With these words, Cardinal Sarah summarizes the theme of his book, which is a simple one and that is that our world is on the brink of the abyss. A crisis of faith and the Church's decline within the West, its betrayal by its elites, an amoral "moral relativism," endless globalism, unbridled materialism, political exhaustion, movements inspired by Islamist totalitarianism...
While making clear the gravity of the crisis through which the West has gone, the Cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God...a world without hope.
After the great international success of his first two books, "God or Nothing" and "The Power of Silence," Cardinal Sarah offers this wide-ranging reflection on the crisis of the contemporary world, while teaching many important spiritual lessons.
Cardinal Robert Sarah is the Vatican’s prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He was born in Guinea, West Africa. Made an Archbishop by Pope John Paul II. When reports of an impending assassination surfaced, he was made a Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI and brought to Rome. He was subsequently named the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Francis in 2014.
Here he issues a stark warning to all inheritors of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture and that is, "The West will disappear” and “Islam will invade the world” and “completely change culture, anthropology, and moral vision” unless we bend the arc of our culture back toward its Judeo-Christian roots.”
It certainly appears that Cardinal Robert Sarah is right, however, at the present time, it doesn't appear that his warning will be heeded.
That was proven recently, in Ireland, when comments made by Cardinal Robert Sarah were quoted at a homily in Newcastle West, about 30 miles outside of Limerick City, causing quite a disturbance among some of the congregants.
According to a number of people who spoke to the local newspaper, The Limerick Leader, a small number of the congregation left the Good Friday ceremonies where Fr. John Mockler gave a homily that quoted Cardinal Robert Sarah.
Fr. Mockler did not respond to a request from that local newspaper to speak about his homily, which some of the congregation were unhappy about and unfortunately, their displeasure was NOT in support, or defense of Western civilization, quite the reverse.
Father Mockler's homily notes were seen by that The Limerick Leader and they read; “Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican’s prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has issued a stark warning to all inheritors of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture, that the 'West will disappear' and 'Islam will invade the world' and 'completely change culture, anthropology, and moral vision' unless we bend the arc of our culture back toward its Judeo-Christian roots.”
THIS is the outrage - far from hearing a dire and necessary warning, Father Mockler's comments were perceived by many of the congregants to be anti-migrant and anti-Muslim.
But according to at least one church source, Fr. Mockler’s homily could not be understood as being anti-Islam, nor anti-migrant, because in putting them in context, the message was that Christians must practice their Christian faith as diligently as Muslims do.
“There is room for everybody but we, as one religion, as Christians, are letting down our Christian heritage, turning our back on it and the natural consequence of that is that Christianity will drop off while Islam will flourish because they (Muslims) celebrate their Muslim faith and we do not do that,” he said. “We can take a leaf from their book.”
Fr. Mockler’s homily notes continued quoting the Cardinal saying, “The spiritual crisis involves the entire world. But its source is in Europe. People in the West are guilty of rejecting God. My country (Cardinal Sarah's) is predominantly Muslim. I think I know what reality I’m talking about.”
According to Fr. Mockler, Cardinal Sarah had highlighted the problem as, “Christians abandoning their heritage” and rejecting God. The Passion narrative should be a sharp reminder to people not to let this happen."
However, one woman at the church described the sermon as ‘hate speech’ and said some people were annoyed and upset about it.
“Anybody I have spoken to, that is what they took from it,” she said. “To hear it coming down from the pulpit, I couldn’t believe it.”
A young man who was at the ceremony said he was taken aback by Fr. Mockler’s words.
“He was quoting a priest or someone from Rome who was saying that the invasion of migrants and Muslims would destroy Catholicism unless we turned back to Catholicism,” he said.
Yes, that's a part of what he said, he actually said that migrant invasion would radically transform and ultimately destroy Europe. Cardinal Sarah's real warning was much more direct and dire.
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