Vatican Library Provides Prayer Room for Muslim Visitors

Vatican II theology in action…

Vatican Library Provides Prayer Room for Muslim Visitors

This image shows the actual Sistine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
The prayer sign and the praying Muslim are stock images added for purposes of illustration only.

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Hot off the presses, from our popular ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ department: The Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City is happy, at least upon request, to provide Muslim visitors with a prayer room so as to accommodate their practice of a false religion.

In an interview with the Rev. Giacomo Cardinali (b. 1977), which was published today in the progressivist Italian daily La Repubblica, followers of the false prophet Mohammed are assured that their objectively false worship is welcome in the sacred halls of the Vatican library, albeit in a separate room. The German Novus Ordo news site Katholisches.de has released a report on the paywalled interview in English translation:

Even in the most important library in Christendom, Muslims do not have to give up their prayers. “Of course, some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” said Giacomo Cardinali, Vice-Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, to the newspaper “La Repubblica” (Wednesday). The Vatican’s book collection contains “incredibly old Korans”, Cardinali continued. “We are a universal library, there are Arabic, Jewish, Ethiopian collections and unique Chinese items.”

(“Vice Prefect: Muslims can also pray in the Vatican Library”, English.Katholisch.de, Oct. 8, 2025)

‘Fr.’ Cardinali is the Vice Prefect of the Vatican Library, a position to which he was appointed by ‘Pope’ Francis shortly before the latter’s death. Despite his curious last name, the man is a simple Novus Ordo priest and not a cardinal.

That a Catholic library would also include books from other religions — even ones so foul as the Koran — is not unusual nor objectionable, as access to them is sometimes needed or useful for certain researchers or other authorized individuals. However, they should probably not be available to the general public. There is good reason why the Church censors books and maintains an Index of Forbidden Books.

What we see here is yet another step in the ongoing Vatican descent into ever greater apostasy. It is brought to you by the Vatican II religion, which declares in one of its founding documents that the adherents of Islam “along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind” (Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, n. 16). That is a revealing statement, considering that Catholics believe that mankind will be judged on the Last Day not simply by “the one God” but quite specifically by Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. As we pray in the Nicene Creed: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth … and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord…. from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.”

It is no secret that Muslims reject Jesus Christ as God; indeed, they reject the idea of God being a Trinity of Persons. Even Vatican II admits that “they do not acknowledge Jesus as God” and merely “revere Him as a prophet” (Nostra Aetate, n. 3), although the council tries to put a positive spin on that (cf. Mt 16:13-17; Mk 16:16; Jn 8:24; 1 Jn 2:23).

Let’s be clear about something: The Vatican that is so generously offering Muslims their own carpeted prayer room is the same Vatican that has put in place draconian measures for the suppression of Holy Mass offered according to the Roman Missal of 1962 (‘Traditional Latin Mass’) to the point of forbidding parishes from even so much as announcing the Mass times for those Traditional Masses that are still licitly offered in the diocese. It is the same Vatican that sometimes allows Anglican pseudo-clergy to use Roman basilicas for their invalid and heretical Eucharistic celebrations. It is the same Vatican that allowed a Muslim imam to pray for “victory over the infidels” in the Vatican Gardens in 2014. Not to mention the abomination that was allowed in St. Peter’s Basilica a few weeks ago.

We don’t know what the de facto Muslim prayer room in the Vatican Library looks like, but we would guess that any and all Catholic imagery that a Muslim visitor would deem ‘offensive’ has been removed, at least during the time it is occupied for false worship.

Perhaps we should be grateful that so far the Vatican authorities haven’t yet declared that Voodoo priests are welcome to perform their sorcery on Vatican property. Which is what they were allowed to do at the Franciscan monastery and basilica of Assisi for the ‘interreligious prayer for peace’ gathering in 2002.

As we’ve been saying, you can’t make it up.

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