A Dwelling Place For Satan In The Vatican

On October 8, 2025, Father Giacomo Cardinali, vice-prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, casually disclosed to Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the Vatican has provided Muslim scholars with a dedicated prayer room complete with prayer rug. "Of course, some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet to pray, and we have given it to them," Cardinali stated.

The revelation, which came not through official Vatican press release but in an interview remark, has sparked immediate controversy across Christian media and online platforms. The prayer space is located within the Vatican Apostolic Library, one of Catholicism's most historically significant institutions, founded in the 15th century and housing approximately 80,000 manuscripts, 50,000 archival documents, nearly two million printed books, and over 100,000 engravings, prints, coins, and medals.

Father Cardinali defended the decision by emphasizing the library's universal mission. "We are a universal library," he told La Repubblica. "We hold Arabic, Jewish, Ethiopian, and Chinese collections of unparalleled richness." He noted that the library contains "incredibly old Qurans" among its Islamic manuscript collections, suggesting that providing prayer space for Muslim researchers represented courtesy consistent with the institution's scholarly openness.

The prayer room is described as modest, equipped with a simple prayer rug oriented toward Mecca. It is not a mosque-like facility but rather a small space set aside for Muslim visitors to perform their five daily prayers while conducting research at the library. According to reports, Muslim scholars requested the accommodation, and Vatican officials approved it as a gesture of hospitality toward visiting academics.

Conservative Catholic outlets reacted with immediate dismay. LifeSiteNews quoted Deacon Nick Donnelly calling it "a total betrayal of Our Lord Jesus Christ." Novus Ordo Watch, a traditionalist Catholic blog, described it as "Vatican II theology in action" and posted images of a Muslim praying superimposed on the Vatican's Sistine Hall to illustrate their criticism.

Critics noted the stark lack of reciprocity: Saudi Arabia permits no churches and prohibits Christian prayer entirely. Christians and non-Muslims are banned from entering Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest cities. Across the Muslim world, Christians face persecution, church destruction, and legal restrictions on worship. Meanwhile, Europe witnesses churches converted to mosques as Islamic migration increases.

The controversy intensified online, with Catholics and other Christians expressing shock that Islamic prayer, which explicitly rejects core Christian doctrines including the Trinity, Incarnation, and divinity of Christ, would be accommodated in the Vatican itself. Some pointed to Islamic tradition holding that any space where Muslims pray becomes Islamic territory, citing the 9th-century story of Caliph Umar declining to pray in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher specifically to prevent it from becoming a mosque.

Father Cardinali's characterization of the decision as simple courtesy to visiting scholars has not assuaged critics, who view it as symptomatic of broader Vatican confusion about Christian identity and mission. The timing is particularly notable: Pope Leo XIV has restricted traditional Latin Mass celebrations while expanding interfaith gestures, a contrast traditionalists find deeply troubling.

The Vatican has not issued official clarification or defense beyond Father Cardinali's initial comments. The prayer room remains in place, with Muslim scholars continuing to use it for daily prayers while conducting research in the library's collections.

THE CRUSADERS OPINION

The Vatican's Muslim prayer room represents complete capitulation at the heart of Christendom. Muslims praying the Fatiha seventeen times daily are asking Allah to guide them away from Christians, "those who have gone astray." Vatican officials provided the carpet for this.

Consider the grotesque asymmetry: Saudi Arabia permits zero churches, imprisons Christians with Bibles, and bans non-Muslims from Mecca on penalty of death. Meanwhile, the Vatican rolls out prayer rugs. This reciprocity will never come because Islamic theology forbids it.

While 7,000 Nigerian Christians were murdered in 220 days by Islamic militants, while Pakistani Christians face blasphemy imprisonment, while Iranian converts rot in jail, the Vatican accommodates Islamic worship that explicitly denies Christ's divinity. This isn't dialogue it's traitorous surrender.

Not a single comment from The Pope about Nigerian Christians being slaughtered, but they offer a prayer room to their killers?

The "hospitality to scholars" excuse is sophistical garbage. The British Library houses Hitler's writings but doesn't provide neo-Nazi worship space. Preserving Islamic manuscripts for study differs categorically from facilitating prayer that rejects Christianity's core claims. The Vatican should have said: "Welcome to research. Worship elsewhere."

This prayer room must close immediately. Officials responsible must be removed. Christianity is true or it's not. If Vatican leadership believes it, they should act accordingly.

If not, they should stop pretending to lead Christ's Church.