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Cardinal celebrates Ramadan at home

Great Britain's leading prelate is being slammed for "appearing to deny Christ" after celebrating "Ramadan at home" while telling Catholics it would cause "scandal" to reopen churches at present. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW), joined in the Iftar ritual breaking of the Ramadan fast at sunset on Wednesday, for the fourth year in a row.

 

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nichols, who hosted a Ramadan Iftar meal at Archbishop’s House in 2017, was forced to partake in the Islamic ritual meal at home while joining Muslim, Protestant and Jewish leaders in an online celebration.   

“For a prelate of the Catholic Church to participate in the ritual of a religion that is so fundamentally anti-Christian and that deceives billions of souls about the divinity of Christ, runs the risk of appearing to deny Christ,” Catholic journalist and popular British author Nick Donnelly told Church Militant.

Christians did this “irrespective of the fact that Islam explicitly attacks the Most Holy Trinity and the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ; that it denies that He is the Son of God and insists that He didn’t die during the Crucifixion nor rise from the dead.”

“However, this active expression of our love of our neighbours is quite different from participating in a Ramadan ritual. By participating in a Ramadan ritual, Cardinal Nichols gives the impression that these fundamental doctrines of Christianity are not as important as fashionable political correctness,” Donnelly emphasised.

“The entire incident epitomises the malady of the Western world,” Islamic scholar Robert Spencer told Church Militant. “The broadcasting of the Islamic call to prayer, World Hijab Day, and #RamadanAtHome all stem from the same impulse: The intelligentsia has adopted the idea that Muslims are a special class that warrants consideration above and beyond that given to other citizens. As that is the status of Muslims under Sharia (Islamic law), the implications are ominous.”

“What these Christian leaders who participated in #RamadanAtHome will ultimately find is that their Muslim partners in this multicultural endeavour have no intention of reciprocating their generosity and hospitality,” Spencer observed. “Whether or not those Muslims participate in the endeavour, the Islamic imperative is to subjugate Christians under the hegemony of Islamic law. These Christians are already halfway there,” the author of the bestseller The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS warned.

Source: churchmilitant.com

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