The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, recently said the Holy See is concerned about the emergence of populism.
The Chief Vatican diplomat was speaking after meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, and other officials for an annual summit at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See, commemorating the signing of the Lateran Pacts between the Holy See and Italy in 1929.
Cardinal Parolin said closing in on oneself is never a good policy.
The inability to welcome and integrate can be dangerous the Cardinal said. “History teaches us this, and we hope that in this sense it will not be repeated."
The vote by Great Britain to leave the European Union, as well as the rise of “Eurosceptic" parties in other countries, has been causing a crisis within European institutions.
It is obvious there are many tensions, many difficulties, but they are also able to become, as they say, an opportune moment - to reset the political relationship on a new basis, the Cardinal said.
Cardinal Parolin told journalists the two sides also spoke about social issues in Italy, especially emigration, unemployment, and youth.
The good Cardinal seems incapable of distinguishing between populism and national sovereignty.
The fact which he does not wish to admit or reference is that the wave of Muslim immigrants to Europe has resulted in social, political and cultural chaos. Muslims show no willingness to assimilate into the various cultures and societies which have welcomed them. Germany is in a state of collapse. The Muslim immigration into Belgium and the Netherlands has resulted in street fighting and civil unrest. Already, Spain and France have begun to take intelligent and long overdue steps to curb Muslim immigration into their countries and to require the immigrant community to begin to assimilate into their respective societies or face deportation.
Cardinal Parolin states a true Gospel counsel: welcome the stranger as a guest. But, unfortunately, he forgets that the Gospel also requires the guest to honor the host and be gracious and grateful.
The Muslim crisis in Europe is the result of ill-conceived notions of globalization and failed attempt to democratize an ancient Mideast religious culture that remains unwilling and uncompromising of its violent response to Western Civilization.
The people of Great Britain had their fill of the nonsense and voiced their disgust at the ballot box.
They and the rest of the peoples of Europe have every moral and legal right to protect their society and their cultural heritage.
The fact that they have finally realized that their leaders have betrayed them is not a sign of the rise of populism but a return to realism and common-sense.
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