Pope blasts Europeans for not having enough children by Sim Sim Wissgott Sat Sep 8, 3:27 PM ET MARIAZELL, Austria (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria. "Europe has become child-poor. We want everything for ourselves and place little trust in the future," the pope told a crowd of faithful from his canopied area at an open-air, afternoon mass that took place under heavy rain. But Benedict held out hope, saying: "The earth will be deprived of a future only when the forces of the human heart and of reason illuminated by the heart are extinguished . . . Where God is, there is the future." [. . .] |
a) Europe already has a lot of people.
b) There's no guarantee that all the children he's encouraging people to have are going to turn out to be faithful Catholics.
c) Overpopulation is already a problem. At some point, practicality trumps ideology.
