Over 40 years ago, Pope Paul VI noted that the acts which are offenses against the transmission of life --- he singled out contraception--- could kill marriages, families, nations, and civilizations.
Europe, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and some other areas now have such a shriveled rate of reproduction that they will not survive as national entities over the next 50 years. We in the USA are just on the edge of demographic senescence and decline, propped up only by immigrants and the first-generation children of immigrants.
Will we go the way of Europe? Probably. Adios.
I’ve always believed we will go the way God has planned.