The Pope’s private secretary gave an interview to a German magazine called Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. Some are predicting another “Islam-Christian blow-up” due to his remarks (i.e. similar to what happened after Pope Benedict’s speech at Regensburg).

“I believe the Regensburg speech, as it is known, was prophetic,” Msgr. Ganswein told the German magazine, because it countered a “certain naivete” among people who do not recognize that various currents exist within Islam.

“Attempts at the ‘Islamification’ of the West cannot be denied,” he said, according to an English translation in the Catholic Explorer. “And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect… The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.” True respect, Ganswein said, is shown in a dialogue with Muslims that is frank, open and honest.

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