{"id":407,"date":"2024-06-09T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:34:51","slug":"pope-francis-overpopulation-is-a-myth-world-needs-more-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Overpopulation is a myth, world needs more children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3b63323200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Popefrancis with baby\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3b63323200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3b63323200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Popefrancis with baby\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes totally true &#8211; and here&#39;s a recent 5 minute CNBC business interview 10 days ago regarding this issue if you doubt it. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3CU8YiJnjt0?si=-16RDxp4ubvFz60B\">birth rate decline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2024\/06\/07\/pope-francis-overpopulation-is-a-myth-the-world-needs-more-children\/\">While visibly ageing, Pope Francis is going strong at 87. He had something important to say on the tenth of May. The following headline, from a Latter Day Saint-friendly outlet, brilliantly summarised his remarks<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Have the courage to have children despite climate change and wars, Pope Francis says: The pontiff asks nations to help women juggle motherhood and work, create job security for young people and help couples buy homes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Francis frequently weighs in about family and fertility. It is heartening that he hammers away at this. His May 10 remarks were at the States General on Natality, a yearly confab sponsored by the Italian government to reverse the country\u2019s falling fertility. The title of this year\u2019s meeting was \u201cBeing there: More youth, more future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes totally true &#8211; and here&#39;s a recent 5 minute CNBC business interview 10 days ago regarding this issue if you doubt it. birth rate decline While visibly ageing, Pope Francis is going strong at 87. He had something important to say on the tenth of May. The following headline, from a Latter Day Saint-friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}