Posted on 02/09/2010 3:54:56 PM PST by wagglebee
NEW YORK, February 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As nations around the world are beginning to feel the effects of plummeting birth rates, the Vaticans representative to the United Nations has stressed that population growth is the key to overcoming poverty. Speaking before the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said, too often population growth is viewed as the cause of poverty whereas it is a means of overcoming it, for only within the work force can the solution for poverty be found.
The archbishop explained: where economic growth rates have declined, the answers lie not in trying to close society to others and pushing for population decline but rather in creating a society which is open to and encourages life. He added, Promoting life and the family and finding ways to integrate the contribution of all people will allow societies to realize their full potential and achieve development.
While population control was pushed at the Copenhagen summit on climate change and is still funded in the billions by the worlds elite, population control measures have largely been discredited as a valid means of reducing poverty.
University of Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan recently spoke of the now discredited theory that poverty in the Third World is based on overpopulation, in comments to the National Post. I dont think any serious scholar believes that anymore, he added.
The Vatican push against population control measures was raised by the pope last year. In his World Day of Peace message for January 1, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the "international campaigns afoot to reduce birth-rates, sometimes using methods that respect neither the dignity of the woman, nor the right of parents to choose responsibly how many children to have; graver still, these methods often fail to respect even the right to life."
Smashing any appeal to undertake population control in the name of alleviating poverty, the pope added: "The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings."
In his message, the Pope brought demographic evidence to defend his views. "Nor must it be forgotten that, since the end of the Second World War, the world's population has grown by four billion, largely because of certain countries that have recently emerged on the international scene as new economic powers, and have experienced rapid development specifically because of the large number of their inhabitants. Moreover, among the most developed nations, those with higher birth-rates enjoy better opportunities for development.
"In other words, population is proving to be an asset, not a factor that contributes to poverty," the pope concluded.
No.
How was I careless?
Then why are you criticizing the Vatican for opposing population control?
You are an idiot who obviously didn’t even read the article.
If you encourage unlimited immigration, the country you emigrate from will have a population problem. They should be encouraging a more just world instead of turning a blind eye to corrupt dictators and guilting prosperous countries into abandoning their sovereignty.
Abortion is such an amusing issue, isn’t it?
You’re not detracting me from anything. Hopefully I am detracting YOU from convincing a young woman to murder her baby.
Actually, I quoted from TWO Pontifical Councils: the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Have YOU decided that these departments of the Roman Curia are no longer to be taken as OFFICIALLY "Catholic"?
On what basis, and upon whose authority, do YOU have the ability to exclude departments of the Roman Curia from the body of the Roman Catholic Church?
As for "selective digging," one can just as easily criticize a "selective denial" which excludes entire Departments of the Roman Curia as being not "really Catholic" because they are found to be too liberal. I wonder what BXVI - or any man of good will -- would think of such legalistic shenanigans.
BTW, here's another of my "selective" quotes from the Vatican website. This one is from a representative of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He has a lot to say about global warming and greenhouse gas emissions and "sustainable development," but nothing about sunspot cycles. Fancy that!
The Earths climate system has demonstrably changed on both global and regional scales since the pre-industrial era. Agenda 21 recognizes the legitimate priority needs of developing countries for the achievement of sustained economic growth and the eradication of poverty, but this clearly cannot be achieved at any price. Even if greenhouse gas emissions were to be stabilized at present levels an unlikely eventuality as things stand - the global warming trend and sea-level rise would continue for hundreds of years, due to the atmospheric lifetime of some greenhouse gases and the long timescales on which the deep ocean adjusts to climate change. In such circumstances, moves to turn the United Nations Environment Programme into a more robust United Nations Environment Organization appear both prudent and welcome, in order to achieve a truly integrated approach to sustainable development in which both halves of that term are given their due weight.
Let me guess -- your response will be to tell me that the Vatican Secretariat of State isn't officially RC either. LOL!
Once again -- anyone who claims like you did in your Post#9 that "The Catholic Church has never said that humans cause global warming..." is demonstrably WRONG.
Catholic ping!
This is not about abortion genius.
Perhaps if you had actually read the article you would see we are talking about two different things. The Pope made a statement over a year ago (this was linked and mentioned in this article), but this article is about a statement that an archbishop recently made.
As far as the "original issue", that would be the sanctity of human life. The Catholic Church has ALWAYS condemned abortion and this is upsetting to those of you who support abortion (and I would imagine especially to people like YOU and OBAMA who BOTH SUPPORT TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTION).
More obfuscation on your part. BTW, have you given up crying for help from the mods?
How so exactly? I posted the article in its entirety with links and one of the links was to an article from a year ago. How does this possibly qualify as "obfuscation"? Or are you complaining about the FACT that you support taxpayer-funded abortion?
BTW, have you given up crying for help from the mods?
Jim has always allowed a handful of abortionists to stay (I disagree with that, but it's obviously his call), it seems that you fall into that category.
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Thank you. However, my comment stands.
Now I am an abortionist? LOL
I understand that you and your ilk feel far more comfortable being called "pro-choice", but the truth is that you and your ilk support abortion (including taxpayer-funded abortion) and that makes you ABORTIONISTS.
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