Posted on 05/24/2006 6:47:17 AM PDT by NYer
The Pope is right - howver - the answer is complicated.
Have the government (populace) issue a hefty bonus check and a lifetime pass to the Calgary Stampede for every child brought to term and born.
Childless couples would be forbidden to spend the winters in Florida.
Watch the birthrate boom to unprecedented levels.
Leni
11 I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the LORD Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.
It would seem that the lower birthrates in so many countries is another Biblical prophesy being fulfilled...
Why single out Canada?
Italy's fertility rate (number of children per woman: 2.0 is the rate required to maintain the population) is only 1.28.
Germany's (his home country) is 1.31.
While Canada's is 1.61.
I can think of no truer statement on the calamity of our era!
True love.
The love that emanates from God.
Did you know, you can make the bible say anything?
Horse manure. Look at the rest of the prophecy:
Isa 13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
Isa 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
Isa 13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isa 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.
Isa 13:18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Isa 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
The reason that men will be scarcer than pure gold in this passage is because the Old Testament God is going to stir up Babylon's neighbors against her, so that the Babylonians are put to the sword, down to the smallest child.
-ccm
Italy is no longer a Catholic nation. Times have changed. :0(
Personal gratification moves toward the top of the list. The '60s slogan "if it feels good, do it," has become the mantra for an entire society.
The problem is endemic in the West.
Oh, he's not singling out Canada. He's been disturbing people all over with his "preferential option for the child."
Because the Canadian bishops were in Rome for their ad limina visit.
Pope decries Italy's rock-bottom birth rate Pope decries Italy's rock-bottom birth rate. VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul yesterday urged Italian couples to have more children and called on public ... www.namibian.com.na/Netstories/2000/February/World/decries.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
"Why single out Canada?"
The Bishops of Canada as a group were visiting Rome. The bishops of a country will visit the Pope every few years for a kind of little pep talk. It is called an ad limina visit. The US bishops probably go next year. That talk should be very interesting.
He was speaking to Canadian Bishops. Why would he talk about another country?
Anyway, he has spoken many times on the low birthrates in Europe.
and of course, he is an expert on marriage, and the art of procreation.....
I'd love to have children if it weren't for the fact that every Canadian woman I've dated over the last 2 years weren't a hardcore pro-abortion feminist or turned out to be messed up on drugs. I know this statement sounds outlandish but it's true.
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