"The Cardinal was taking the long-term view, facing the problem on its own terms, which includes both economics and attitudes."
Perhaps that's because he doesn't have to run for his office, and so has no need to tell the voters they're great and everything is wonderful.
Well, [extended] family is/was a safety net. In more traditional [pre-Bismarkian - he was a pioneer of "social security"] societies this alone forced the fertility rates up. Thus the solution - purely political, albeit politically inpalatable - would be the abolition of welfare state root and branch.
Trujillo rocks!
Someone has to speak the truth and this guy seems to have the fortitude to do so.
Sadly there still remain millions of idiots - some of them FReepers - who buy into the "overpopulation" myth.
"whistlng past the graveyard." Exactly. What an apt metaphor. An Italian observer recently said, "Not enough graves and not enough cradles." Geriatric Europeans will have to depend on young Muslims to support them - LOL, which in this case, means Lots Of Luck.