Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies ( www.euronews.com )

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.”

CanadaPlus ,

You go first.

AdolfSchmitler ,

Why not give people actual hope for the future if that's the problem?

lazylion_ca ,

“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.

lazylion_ca ,

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.

Cornpop ,

Fuck that! Too many people on this world! All this infinite growth bullshit is crazy! We need to be downsizing everything.

geography082 ,

Smettila di usare i preservativi amici italiani

exanime ,

Why? Are they running low on choices to diddle?

HootinNHollerin ,

Catholicism is a cancer on humanity

geography082 ,

religions

HootinNHollerin ,

Yes the lot of em

UnrefinedChihuahua ,

"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??

RizzRustbolt ,

Whatever, Mugatu.

riodoro1 ,

Fuck the environment. Lets get to 10 billion because hope or some shit.

saltesc ,

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.

Sgt_choke_n_stroke ,

Christians are so poor they can only afford one god

Ashyr ,

Says the person who has sworn to never have babies.

nikaaa ,

“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.

locuester ,

Exactly

Sgt_choke_n_stroke ,

The priests are complaining the dating pool is shrinking.

Fedizen ,

pope needs to be the change he wants to see in the world.

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