Cardinal Müller Deplores Mass Muslim Migration in Europe

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Cardinal Gerhard Müller is alarmed at the demographic transformation of Europe, the result of unchecked Muslim immigration — there are now 47 million Muslims in Europe — and the failure of European leaders to fight against the Islamization of their own countries. He worries about future “civil wars” between the indigenous peoples of Europe and the Muslims who have flooded into their countries, intent not on integrating with their hosts but on prevailing over them. He insists that “nations” have rights that must be preserved, and calls on Europeans to prevent Muslim migrants from rendering them “marginalized” in their own countries. More on this Daniel come to judgment, the very opposite of Popes Francis and Leo, can be found here: “Top Conservative Cardinal Blasts Mass Migration, Defends Rights of Nations,” by Thomas Colsy, European Conservative, March 15, 2026:

One of the foremost conservative members of the College of Cardinals has castigated mass migration, spoken of the danger of “civil wars,” and called for greater recognition that “nations” and peoples have rights in an exclusive interview with europeanconservative.com. Faced with unprecedented demographic shifts, the former curial official insists that now is the time for politicians and citizens of European and Western nations to take up responsibility and “decide if they want to be marginalised in their own country.”

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller is an imposing man. The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—initially founded as the Roman Inquisition—under Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, he once occupied the arguably most powerful and influential post in the Catholic Church behind that of the papacy itself. A tall and well-built Rhinelander, he speaks slowly and carefully. Seated in front of his extensive library in his reception room, he confided frankly, giving intellectually formed answers.

It irritates Cardinal Müller that, after the politically progressive sympathies of Pope Francis, observers inside and outside of the Church mistake these stances for those of authentic Catholic belief and doctrine. Elsewhere, he has criticised an exaggerated understanding of papal infallibility, often referred to as ‘ultramontanism’ and a “cult of the personality” surrounding Pope Francis. Müller condemns this error “that says every private meaning of the Pope is a dogma or is an interpretation of the revealed truth.”

Müller says explicitly that, while under very specific, rare, and limited circumstances papal infallibility does exist for Catholics, this categorically does not extend to “his private understanding about migrants and so forth.”

“He has to defend the human rights of everybody,” he explained. “But it is another question entirely whether there should come, in ten years, millions and millions of Muslim migrants to change, totally, the culture and provoke civil wars, as happens in majority Muslim countries.”

Müller went further: “It is impossible, integration, if a big majority do not become Christian.”

“In nearly all the Muslim countries, there is an oppression of Christian communities,” he continued. “When I ask ChatGPT, and AI, it says Muslims are tolerant. The next question I ask is, can you tell me one [Muslim majority] country where Christians have the same rights? And they can say nothing.”

“There is no good answer,” he said. “In this question, it is the responsibility of the politicians and the citizens of the countries to decide if they want to be marginalised in their own country.”

Müller recognised that this trend is beneficial neither for Europeans and Western peoples nor for the Church. He observed that “everywhere” we are observing an increase in “attacks against the church buildings and against Christian values and ideas.” The former of which, anti-Christian hate crimes, have been rising exponentially and are assiduously documented by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians, which helped bring a formal challenge to the European Parliament in 2025 for their inaction to confront it.

“But it is also our fault,” Müller reflected, suggesting that mass migration is inextricably related to unresolved crises in birth rates and fertility. “I remember when I was young, there was harsh politics against the family, matrimony, against children. This demographic catastrophe is man-made. Like in China with their stupid one-child policy.”

Everywhere in Europe, the fertility rates of the indigenous peoples have fallen far below the replacement level of 2.1. In France, it is now 1.56; in Italy, it is lower still — 1.2 children per family. And everywhere in Europe, the fertility rates of Muslim women are far above the replacement level, at 2.6. Thus the percentage of the population that is Muslim continues inexorably to increase. And it is not only fertility rates that ensure that result; so does the largely unchecked migration into Europe of hundreds of thousands, and in some years millions, of Muslims who enter. These Muslims are mostly economic migrants, intent on battening on all the benefits that the generous welfare states of Europe provide, including free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education including language tuition, family allowances, unemployment benefits without the need for a record of employment, and more.

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