Europe’s Cassandra: An Interview with Gabriele Kuby

Europe’s Cassandra | Alvino-Mario Fantini | CWR

German sociologist Gabriele Kuby discusses
conversion, the global sexual revolution, freedom, family, and faith

German sociologist Gabriele Kuby has been warning the public about
threats to society and dangers to the Catholic Faith for years. She
has warned of the excesses of the cultural revolution of 1968,
offered a critique of the ideology of feminism, and warned of the
destructive effects of the sexual revolution. But what makes her
especially qualified to speak about such matters is that she herself
was a revolutionary soixante-huitard before
converting to the Catholic Faith in 1997.

Born
in Konstanz, Germany, in 1944, Kuby studied sociology in Berlin and
completed her Master’s degree in Konstanz under Ralf Dahrendorf in
the late 1960s. For several decades before her conversion, she
dabbled in esoteric material and worked as a translator and
interpreter. Her first book, Mein Weg zu Maria—Von der Kraft
lebendigen Glaubens (My Way to Maria—by the Power of the
Living Faith), published by Bertelsmann Verlag in 1998, is a diary of
her encounter with Christ and her life-changing conversion.

Since
then she has published ten other books about faith and spirituality,
the 1968 cultural revolution, feminism, gender and sexuality, and how
to find hope through a reaffirmation of Christian values.

Kuby is
a frequent lecturer in Germany and around Europe, and has written for
numerous print and on-line publications in Europe, including The
Daily Mail in the U.K., Vatican
Magazin in Germany, and www.kath.net.
She has also been a guest on talk shows aired by German public
service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, as well as global television
network EWTN.

In
2012, Kuby’s latest book, Die globale sexuelle Revolution:
Zerstörung der Freiheit im Namen der Freiheit (The Global
Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of
Freedom), was published by Fe-Medienverlag
in 2012. Recently, she spoke with Catholic World Report about
her book, her work, and today’s dangerous challenges to the Faith.

CWR:
What has most influenced your intellectual development?

Gabriele
Kuby: My lifelong search for truth. My father, Erich Kuby, was a
left-wing writer and journalist. That set me on the path of the 1968
student rebellion and eventually led to the study of sociology in
West Berlin. But to me, neither Communism nor feminism, nor the
sexual revolution, was convincing—especially given the gap between
human reality and the ideals proclaimed by these groups. So I soon
moved on.

After a
direct experience of God in 1973, I began to search for God on paths
where you can’t find Him: esoterics and psychology. For twenty
years I worked as a translator in these fields. And I moved through
the ideological currents of our time—which made it very difficult
to walk through the door of the Church and discover the treasures she
offers. But eventually, in 1997, I did. Since then, I have been
writing books on spiritual matters and socio-political issues.

CWR:
Last September, you published The Global Sexual Revolution:
Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom.Why
did you write this book? What has been the response?

Gabriele
Kuby: After my conversion, it became increasingly clear to me
that the deregulation of sexual norms is at the front lines of
today’s cultural war. So, in 2006, I published my first book on the
topic: Gender Revolution: Relativism in Action. This was,
in fact, one of the first books to shed light on a hidden agenda.

As I
continued to watch developments in our society, I felt a need to show
the whole picture. This is what I have tried to do in The Global
Sexual Revolution.

The
book has had three editions within a few months, although the
mainstream media have ignored it. In German we have the expression
totschweigen, which means “silencing something to death.”
But it doesn’t seem to have worked! The book has been published in
Poland and Croatia, and will be published in Hungary and Slovakia
this autumn. And there are ongoing negotiations with publishers in
other countries, too.

On
September 31, 2012, I had the privilege of putting the book into the
hands of Pope Benedict XVI, who then said to me, “Thank God that
you speak and write.” This is a great encouragement!

CWR:
What is the main message of the book?

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