Posted on 02/22/2020 5:20:41 PM PST by marshmallow
The shrinking population affects the 'very existence of our country,' President Sergio Mattarella warns.
ROME, Italy, February 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Italy welcomed its smallest number of newborns in 2019, leading its president to foretell the country’s doom.
“This is a problem that concerns the very existence of our country,” said Sergio Mattarella, 78.
“The fabric of our country is weakening, and everything must be done to counter this phenomenon.”
According to Italy’s national statistics agency, ISTAT, there were only 435,000 births in Italy last year, the lowest number ever recorded in the country, compared with 647,000 deaths.
The number of births was down 5,000 from 2018, and the number of deaths increased by 14,000.
Reuters reported that Italy’s overall population fell by 116,000 to 60.3 million despite the growing number of births to migrants to the country. The news agency also noted that “Italy’s population had risen virtually every year since World War I, hitting a peak in 2015 at 60.8 million, but has since started to decline.”
Life expectancy has increased to 85.3 years for Italian women and 81 years for Italian men. The decrease in births and increase in life expectancy has resulted in an average age of 45.7.
When the low number of Italian births for 2018 was reported, then-interior minister Matteo Salvini said, “We are in a terrible state.”
“This is the real crisis (in Italy), not the bond yield spreads or the economic crisis.”
Italian-American Beverly Stevens, editor of Regina magazine, told LifeSiteNews that the sexual revolution is to blame for the low Italian birth rate.
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It wasn't until the Lambeth Conference of 1930 where the Protestants reversed their teaching on the subject that couples began to take it upon themselves to determine at the start of the marriage how many children they were going to have.
And as the agreed-upon number seems to have been "2", and because that number is below the number needed for a society to replace itself, we are in our current position of having to import our replacement population.
(But we still stand here and pretend to wonder how to stop the movement of red states shifting to purple and then to blue.)
Read the rest of my comments; I don't pull any punches for the Catholics.
It seems to me Greece is the gateway to all of Europe as once they get into Greece they can then go to any EU country.
Two kids is replacement IIRC.
2.0 is inadequate for the simple reason that it doesn't address those who die before reproducing.
Are we to presume you’ve done you’re “fair share” to keep the population above replacement?
Whoa. You're statement is inaccurate as it makes out as if a general conference of ALL non-Roman Catholic groups convened at this conference. Your statement is misleading at best.
The Lambeth Conference is a decennial assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The first such conference took place in 1867.
Now, if you want to continue to argue that the primary purposes of marriage is to produce children, you're going to have to explain away Rome's allowance of Natural Family Planning when couples use it to AVOID pregnancy. It is contraception/birth control by another name.
The constant drumbeat of the white liberal elite ‘the sky is falling’ BS being screamed out for years has an effect... Everything from ‘the population bomb’ to peak oil, acid rain, killer bees, rising oceans, global cooling, global warming, etc. etc.etc...
To make the BS more effective the stuff is taught to frightened 6 year old children then every year after. The third world doesn’t abuse their children in this fashion. So, yeah - western cultures are dying. A pox on our white trash ‘elites’... for damaging our children.
HOW DARE THEY?
“take over if the autocthonic populace dies out”
Populations or more accurately cultures are always in competition with other cultures. If the ‘authentic Italian culture’ can’t compete — well, that’s the way it goes.
“Has nothing to do with my question you are avoiding.”
It describes exactly why you would say such a stupid thing.
“If you can’t handle the debate”
Nothing you post is ever any part of a debate. You just say boneheaded, stupid things that no intelligent person would ever waste his time on.
When a person is both stupid and a know-it-all, his ululations are never worthy of notice.
Catholic charity shines through again.
Another church sanctioned thing they condemn, relabel, and then tell their parishioners that it's OK.
So Roman Catholicism allows birth control as long as it doesn't involve any thing other than NFP?
Now, the FRomans on this board have soundly condemned birth control because it allows for sex without the opportunity for procreation because that has corrupted society.
The problem is, however, that is the goal of NFP is sex without the opportunity for procreation, just for the enjoyment of it, which many FRomans on this board condemn, as if sex for the heck of it is bad.
When a person is both stupid and a know-it-all, his ululations are never worthy of notice.
Continuing to prove once again that it is usually, though not always, the Roman Catholic who resorts to profanity and/or the personal attack when they are devoid of an argument....which is often.
What hypocrisy. Everything I said about your scumbag-in-arms applies equally to you.
Paul didn't seem to think so!
True to form.
Have a good night.
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