The resistance of some European states to EU plans to relocate 120,000 refugees across the continent is being reflected by some of the countries’ senior Catholic figures. Shocking terms, such as ‘invaders’ and ‘masked jihadists’, are being bandied about
When work was completed on a razor-wire fence sealing Hungary’s southern frontier with Serbia, and beleaguered refugees were roughed up and arrested, the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference and its newly elected president, Bishop András Veres of Szombathely, said nothing. A little earlier, when Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned in the German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine, that Europe was endangered by the mass influx of people from “a different religion” when its Chr
01 October 2015, The Tablet
Cold blasts from the East
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