Udtalelsen er tilbage fra 1990, altså lang tid før muslimer skræmte ham til politisk korrekthed efter hans udtalelse om, islam altid blev spredt med sværdet:

Boganmeldelse – The Pope vs. Muslims

“Now, however, Lord Black’s authoritative and highly readable new memoir reveals that at a small dinner party given at the home of Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter, the then–cardinal archbishop of Toronto, in 1990, the then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict—”lamented ‘the slow suicide of Europe:’ its population was aging and shrinking, and the unborn were being partly replaced by unassimilable immigrants. He thought that Europe would awake from its torpor, but that there were difficult days head.” Black concluded that ‘Like other cardinals of my acquaintance (including our host), he was a far-sighted judge of important secular matters.’”