Roman Catholic bishop says Vatican complicit in invasion and dechristianization of Europe

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During an interview published Saturday after the 2026 Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider reiterated that the mass migration of Muslims into Europe is an “invasion” and called out the Vatican’s support for the “Dechristianization” of the continent.

During the interview with the Remnant’s Michael Matt that aired October 24, Bishop Schneider discussed the ongoing riots in France, Italy, and across Europe that are the result of an Islamist “invasion” of the continent and are meant to frighten and intimidate the Christian population.

The bishop emphasized that not only are the European “elites” complicit in allowing this “invasion” and ultimately the “Dechristianization” of Europe but so is the Vatican, which gives spiritual credibility to the invasion.

Riots serve as ‘intimidation’ of Christians, Europeans

“But (the riots are) ultimately partly a complicit act … of this government in France or … in other European countries to simply scare us: the Europeans, the Christians to be silent. You are scared, ‘if you open your mouth, we will burn your house, we will burn the churches,’ as now they are doing in France,” he told Matt.

“They are doing an exercise for us; I think it’s a very cunning method also partly tolerated … by some responsible politicians in Europe to simply threaten us and scare us … a massive intimidation of Catholics or Christians in Europe,’” he added. “And this we may recognize, and even people of goodwill even who are not Catholics, who still have some sense of ‘I am a European, I am French or a German, (or) Italian to unite all these good forces to peacefully resist this intimidation and to issue stricter laws to protect the European population and to restrict really the so-called ‘immigration,’ which is not immigration; it is an invasion.”…

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