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Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies

www.euronews.com /health/2024/05/10/pope-tells-italians-they-need-to-have-more-babies-amid-record-low-fertility-rates

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.”

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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.
  
  What pension? Companies don't offer pensions anymore. And the govt wants to steal whats left and give it to the oil companies.
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.
  
  Dunno if I'd call the guy who says he's a literal god the most humble dude in history.
  Of course it's questionable if he did indeed make that claim (if he even really existed), but the Pope certainly believes that he did.
  
  the most humble dude in history
  What does Mr. Rogers have to do with this?
“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
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_rate
- And even if his statement were correct, he's got the cause and effect completely backwards.
"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??
- Whatever, Mugatu.
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.
Why? Are they running low on choices to diddle?
Dating pool shrinking, Pontiff?
Catholicism is a cancer on humanity
- religions
  
  Yes the lot of em
“Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”
Bout 30 years too late for that, old man. I grew up with that hopelessness. Between the climate and the economy, the damage is done. Gonna need more than a tax break to change course.
But hey, it's nice to see that he's not completely oblivious.
Fuck the environment. Lets get to 10 billion because hope or some shit.
pope needs to be the change he wants to see in the world.
Why not give people actual hope for the future if that's the problem?
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.
Without knowing of the Roman Empire, you'd be confused as hell on how Christianity ended up in Italy's hands. Abrahamic religions are one of our sloppiest punchlines.
- Christians are so poor they can only afford one god
Fuck that! Too many people on this world! All this infinite growth bullshit is crazy! We need to be downsizing everything.
You go first.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
With the Vatican’s strong backing, the right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni has mounted a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033, reaching a rate that experts say is necessary to prevent the economy from collapsing under the weight of an ageing population.
Francis called for long-term political strategies and policies to encourage couples to have children, including an end to precarious work contracts and impediments to buying homes, as well as ensuring that women aren't forced have to choose between motherhood and a career.
“The problem of our world is not children being born: it is selfishness, consumerism and individualism which make people sated, lonely and unhappy," Francis said.
Francis is expected to continue emphasising demographics during the upcoming 2025 Holy Year, which will feature hope as its main theme.
In a Jubilee decree issued on Thursday, Francis called for a new social covenant among Christians to encourage couples to be open to having children.
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Smettila di usare i preservativi amici italiani

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