Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year.
Pope Francis is stepping up his campaign to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future.
“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.
“Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”
Why not give people actual hope for the future if that’s the problem?
“Man who covers up the rape of children by his peers asks the public to have more children.”
Everyone sees how crazy this is, right? Right??
Why? Are they running low on choices to diddle?
pope needs to be the change he wants to see in the world.
Lol. Will the church spend even a tiny fraction of its wealth to help families? No? Didn’t think so. Get fucked🖕
You expect the successor to the most humble dude in history to not carry a gold staff? Sounds like heresy.
Catholicism is a cancer on humanity
Without a future or desire to live, why would we have kids? Why are we listening to an 80 year old male virgin in a dress who represents a fairy tale and participated in covering up the rapes of children around the world?
Because someone is going to have to work for you pension.
What is a pension? /s
But also, no. No one should be forced to endure this world just to keep pensions going.
The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people
Niger must be overflowing with hope!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rateAnd even if his statement were correct, he’s got the cause and effect completely backwards.
Says the person who has sworn to never have babies.
Have the offering plates been a little light lately? Tithes not keeping up with the profit margins?
It’s rich that one of the wealthiest organizations in the world is telling tax-payer funded governments to loosen the purse strings.
“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.
Hope comes first, births comes second.
You can’t fake an indicator and hope for the situation to improve.
Exactly
Dating pool shrinking, Pontiff?
Why? Do they need a new generation of kids to molest?
They got entire families coming from both the south and the east. 🇿🇦🇵🇸
LET THEM IN.
no no no not that kind of babies
The priests are complaining the dating pool is shrinking.
