It’s about time the Vatican woke up to this reality.
As much as I admired JPII - he was too conciliatory toward Islam (how long before someone posts the infamous Koran kiss? :-))
This pope seems to be slowly addressing the reality we face in Christendom.
Not just Europe! The world!!
At least the RCC is now being a lot more forthcoming on this great danger for a change!
In some ways it does appear the Vatican has been “late” but remember the Moslems and the Church did fight against abortion rights at some UN conference in the 1990s.
Perhaps it is hard for the Vatican to see which is the more dangerous, Western secularism or nutty militant Islam. Western secularism leads to spiritual death and Islam although not truly attractive to western secularists will bring physical death and persecution and conversion if only by the sword if it is not challenged and “quarantined”.