Czech Archbishop to the Hungarians: "Realize, you have saved Europe"

"Realize, you have saved Europe!" Balázs Orbán, political director of the Prime Minister, quoted Czech Archbishop Dominik Duka, who gave an interview to the Hungary Today .

During the interview with the retired archbishop of Prague, Hungary Today talked about the challenges facing the church and its renewal, the role of the church - and Hungarian institutions - in this, presenting an alternative to current ideologies, Christianity, universal values, migration and the Czech-Hungarian he also talked about his relationship.

The archbishop emphasized that one of the fundamental values ​​of Western civilization, the concept of the common good, has now disappeared from the vocabulary of European people, but he believes that this should be put back in the center.

According to the church leader, the issue of migration has clearly shown that it is not only a charity issue, but also a political and security issue, which the mainstream does not want to hear about.

In this regard, Duka recalled the words of Pope Francis:

each country can accept as many refugees as it can integrate into its own society.

Among the archbishop's words, Balázs Orbán in his Facebook post that, according to Duka, the Hungarians should realize that they saved Europe.

In the interview, the Czech archbishop also spoke about the historical traditions of Czech-Hungarian-Polish cooperation going back to the Middle Ages, and during the struggle against Islam and Ottoman oppression, this bond became so close that it is still decisive today.

Dominik Duka mentioned that when he worked in the Czech national accreditation committee, György Soros also approached them, saying that he would give fifty million dollars, and if the Czech state also gave fifty million Czech crowns, then they would establish the Central European University (CEU) in the country. But according to him, nothing came of the project because the universities were against it en masse. And their opposition stemmed from the fact that, in their opinion, the proposal would have completely killed their school system.

He added:

Source: Hungarian Nation

Cover photo: MTI Photo: György Varga