Interior Minister and anti-migrant
Euroskeptic League party leader Matteo Salvini can't call
himself a Christian after brandishing a rosary during a Milan
rally of rightist nationalist European leaders, an Italian
bishop said Monday.
"We can no longer stay silent over the bragging of an ever
more arrogant minister," said Domenico Mogavero, bishop of
Mazara del Vallo, a port in western Sicily.
"We can no longer allow (people) to appropriate the sacred
signs of our faith to peddle their inhuman, anti-historic views,
diametrically opposed to the Gospel message.
"Those who are with him cannot call themselves Christian
because they have reneged on the commandment of love," said
Mogavero.
The bishop was speaking on the sidelines of the assembly of
Italian bishops in Rome.
The Vatican has criticised Salvini's use of the rosary saying
that invoking God for oneself is always dangerous".
Mogavero is head of the judicial affairs panel of the Italian
Bishops Conference (CEI).
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