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I quite agree with Starfish. Asking for "more children" is clumsy at best. What's wrong with helping the ones already there? Can't Christians, Catholics, be made by conversion as well. Mother Theresa had the right idea, go out and tend the sheep first.
As far as "overpopulation" goes, yes, the earth could hold more people and do so very well. But why would we want to? Call me a tree hugger, but what's the good of having so many people when other good things, such as the Amazon, or the Arctic ice, or the like, have to be lost? Don't animals and men already scramble for land and resources already? Yes, big familiess are wonderful, I don't deny that they can be a great source of love/resourcefulness. All I'm saying is not everyone is up to this.

I quite agree with Starfish. Asking for "more children" is clumsy at best. What's wrong with helping the ones already there? Can't Christians, Catholics, be made by conversion as well. Mother Theresa had the right idea, go out and tend the sheep first.
She most certainly did.
Sidenote: A large German company bought the airport in Albania's capital, Tirana. It wasn't Mother Theresa's homeland, which was Skopje, Macedonia, but it was where she grew up. Anyway, these Germans brought in all local Albanian people to rebuilt and remodel the hopelessly out-of-date airport. It was a lovely joint project.
Then, the people of the country where Mother Theresa lived had to decide on a name for the airport.
You guessed it. The once-HOPELESSLY COMMUNIST Albanians chose their airport name: MOTHER THERESA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. Such irony

As far as "overpopulation" goes, yes, the earth could hold more people and do so very well. But why would we want to? Call me a tree hugger, but what's the good of having so many people when other good things, such as the Amazon, or the Arctic ice, or the like, have to be lost? Don't animals and men already scramble for land and resources already? Yes, big familiess are wonderful, I don't deny that they can be a great source of love/resourcefulness. All I'm saying is not everyone is up to this.
Well said.