Comments on: Population Control Myths Explode In The Face Of Reality

By: maku shuruu

maku shuruu — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:45:00 +0000

If anybody can do this, it’ll be the Japanese. If they can’t, then the risk to rely on this strategy is too high, and the chances of success are too remote. They are technologically very advanced, and they will be leading indicator of this phenomenon; their population began to shrink in the first quarter of 2005.

By: abadilla

abadilla — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:45:00 +0000

Monsignor, I met Fr. Marx many years ago in northern California at a pro-life Conference and he was very inspirational. I also bought his books.
Can you imagine if all the clergy were like him and from the pulpit thunder against the evils of contraception and abortion?
Yes, I do hope the new generations of priests, particularly the JP II priests wil be able to re-evangelize our Church.
I do admire Venerable Paul VI for his writing on Humanae Vitae and his Populorum Progressio which was also a hit in Catholic circles.

By: Msgr. Charles M. Mangan

Msgr. Charles M. Mangan — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:01:00 +0000

J.M.J. Yes, Abadilla. As the late Fr. Paul Marx, O.S.B.–”the Apostle of Life”–quipped, both the medical profession and the clergy let us down. Regarding the clergy, we are consoled by the young priests and seminarians among us who will confront the matter of contraception. May their voices come soon, though Our Lady.

By: abadilla

abadilla — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:16:00 +0000

And yet Monsignor, rare is the clergyman who speaks on this issue, either because they don’t believe it themselves, or because they don’t want to confront angry Catholics who still support a contraceptive mentality.

By: Msgr. Charles M. Mangan

Msgr. Charles M. Mangan — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:40:00 +0000

J.M.J. Thank you, Abadilla. No authentic Catholic renaissance will ever occur until our Catholic clergy and laity reject contraception, which still remains the linchpin to all our troubles from the 1960s forward.

By: abadilla

abadilla — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:05:00 +0000

A few days ago I told Marvin Derks about this scientific fact, “Now, according to the numbers from the Center For Disease Control & Prevention, the United States, it turns out, has the reverse problem—apparently the people of this country aren’t having enough children.”
True, I did not give him the “source” for my information yet I have known this information for years! The population of Europe has also grown old and is not replenishing itself. It is the Muslim population that doesn’t contracept and is not open to the crime of abortion that is maintaining Europe from a total collapse due to not having young people replacing the old folks like me. The same is happening in these United States with the Hispanic population, also adverse to contraceptives and aborting their children.
Paul VI was indeed prophetic when in Humanae Vitae he warned us that contraception would lead to evils not then understood. Many Catholics and non-Catholics flatly rejected his warnings and here we are, more than 40 years since the issuing of that encyclical, and what he said is fulfilling itself right before our own eyes.
A friend of mine was complaining the other day that Catholic schools are closing because we don’t have enough Catholic children like we had in the 60s. Gee, I wonder why!

By: Msgr. Charles M. Mangan

Msgr. Charles M. Mangan — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:48:00 +0000

J.M.J. In times past, population growth was seen as a positive because of the notion that we wished to share with future generations what we possess. Today, increased population is seen as a drag on what we have unless these persons can assist us with what are considered menial tasks. Seemingly, we will share with only those persons we decide have a right to exist, only if they can fulfill a task that will help us. I may smile at the Asian or African American or Hispanic who is serving my meal at McDonald’s because he or she serves a purpose. But will I smile at the same person who is sleeping in my driveway in the morning because he or she has no place to rest? I shouldn’t just tolerate increased population because I need those folks. I should embrace them because I want their participation in the human community. May God forgive my selfishness.

By: Marvin Derks

Marvin Derks — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Interesting points. However, I question whether we need positive population growth at the present time. Technology has advanced us to a point where less people are needed for functions that used to take many more people to accomplish. Additionally, people are living longer and accomplishing more because of that. If a point came where we did indeed need more population growth, I’m confident that we would find a way to accomplish that as a society.