The Great Catholic Replacement

A story which I failed to put up in a timely manner due to very hectic events during the past few weeks, is the recent ordination of three priests by Malta’s Catholic Church. The story is that one of the newly ordained priests is from Singapore: Fr Shawn Wong. The other two are Maltese and they are Fr Johann Bugeja and Fr Matthew Sammut. They were ordained at Saint John’s Co-Cathedral earlier this month.

The Catholic Church in Europe but especially in Malta is offsetting its losses in terms of followers and donations with third-country nationals. This phenomenon is very interesting because third-country nationals are actually preserving what the far-right would describe as “European culture” (Christianity was born in the Near East not in Europe).

My theory is that immigrants to are saving Christianity in Europe because native Europeans are no longer religious. I expect this trend to increase.

Photos below by Claire Camilleri from the Archdiocese of Malta.