Washington D.C., Jun 22, 2008 / 01:57 am
Austin Ruse, director of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, has warned that “Europe is almost certainly dying” because of falling birth rates, radical social policies, and the decline of marriage on the continent. Its only hope for revival, he argues, is for Europeans to again proclaim the “lordship of Christ.”
Ruse’s comments, published on the new web site “The Catholic Thing,” tell of his attendance at the “Post-Christian Europe and the Resurgence of Islam” conference held earlier this month in Vienna to discuss secularism and Islam.
Ruse writes that there was a “fair amount of Muslim panic” at the conference, especially from British journalists in attendance.
“There seemed to be a consensus that Europe is in deep trouble for a whole host of reasons, including Muslim immigration, lack of assimilation, and below replacement fertility of non-Muslim Europeans,” Ruse says.