Pope’s politically incorrect message in East Timor: Keep having babies

Yeah very politically incorrect. Excerpt from this column, which is by Phil Lawler in the online magazine Catholic culture, is below the link.

“How wonderful that here in East Timor there are so many children,” Pope Francis said during a homily preached at an outdoor Mass on September 10.

That sentence is not taken out of context—not the sort of line a friendly pastor might toss off to calm down parents of restless children in the congregation. The Pope’s entire homily was about children and birth. In a meditation on the day’s reading from Isaiah (“A child has been born for us, a son given to us”), the Pope remarked that the arrival of a child is “a shining moment of joy and celebration,” a sign of hope.

At the end of the Mass, Pope Francis returned to that theme in impromptu remarks. “I hope you continue to have many children,” he told the faithful of East Timor. He warned them to be wary of foreign influences that might change their attitude toward children, of those who “want to change your culture, want to change your history.”

The mainstream media in the West paid scant attention to the Pope’s natalist message (perhaps because the editorial slant of most major media outlets favors those foreign influences that the Pope decried). But consider how rare it is for a major public figure from Europe to advise a Third World audience to keep having lots of babies. The ideology of Planned Parenthood and Zero Population Growth holds sway in the Western world. And since that ideology has always been heavily infected with racism, the West has come to discourage the birth of babies, but especially the birth of brown and black and yellow babies.