Cardinal: ‘Whoever has the children, has the future’ as Islam surges in Vienna

Cardinal: ‘Whoever has the children, has the future’ as Islam surges in Vienna Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn responds to Islam becoming the predominant religion among students in Vienna's public schools amid a Christian demographic decline. An Austrian reporter recently asked Cardinal Christoph Schönborn whether it worried him that Islam is now the largest religion among Vienna’s schoolchildren. The retired archbishop of Vienna’s reply was brief: “Whoever has the children, has the future. That’s my simple answer.”The numbers behind the question are alarming for the capital city of historically Catholic Austria. In Vienna’s public compulsory schools for the 2025-26 schoolyear, Muslim...