Schönborn told FamilleChretienne.fr (September 4): "For the Muslims, God has asked that the whole world be subject to him and to the Koran."
Christians and Muslims are both missionary religions, but in different ways: "We do not take up arms, but trust in the work of grace."
In Vienna, there are currently more Muslim than Christian primary school pupils.
Schönborn also commented on the homosexual pamphlet 'Fiducia supplicans', which contradicts an earlier document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
"I believe that the Church has shown its own helplessness in this matter with the two successive documents from Rome. In my opinion, these texts are on shaky ground. We are faced with a question to which there can be no correct answer.”
It is the “misfortune of the German Synod” that it wants clear, unambiguous answers. But “unambiguity does not work in real life”.
The failed document ‘Traditionis custodes’, which tried to restrict the Latin Mass, is no problem for Schönborn:
"Let us accept that Francis has his reasons for closing the doors again, at least partially, just as we accepted that Benedict XVI had his reasons for opening them. Let us trust that the Lord is leading the Church. It's not a big storm!”
Speaking of the elderly generation, the "veterans of the post-conciliar era", Schönborn reminds that for young people, Vatican II is ancient history: "Our generation must look with great benevolence at this new generation, which [allegedly] switches easily between the traditional Mass and the prayer groups of the [charismatic and interreligious] Emmanuel Community,” Schönborn said.
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