Catholics don't have to breed 'like rabbits', says Pope Francis

[Surya Gayatri]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/catholics-dont-have-to-breed-like-rabbits-says-pope-francis

Catholics do not have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practise “responsible parenting”, Pope Francis said on Monday.
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But he firmly upheld church teaching banning contraception and said no outside institution should impose its views on regulating family size, blasting what he called the “ideological colonisation” of the developing world.
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At the same time, however, he said it’s not true that to be a good Catholic “you have to be like rabbits”. On the contrary, he said “responsible parenthood” requires that couples regulate the births of their children, as church teaching allows. He cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven cesarean sections.

Comments:

bobbymac1956

20 January 2015 9:39am

I understand that right wing evangelical christian groups have worked in developing countries for years promoting their church comes first then giving aid and the hospitals/clinics they fund do not offer contraception or even advice on choices that may include abortion . So being against

progressive, western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the developing world by groups, institutions or individual nations, often as a condition for development aid.

is another example of double standards from organised religion.


Catwaffles25
20 January 2015 9:51am

Catholics do not have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practise “responsible parenting”, Pope Francis said on Monday

Haha! So don't breed too much, but then you're still not allowed to use contraception.

Doesn't sound stupid at all!

[gerogie2]

1. Umm, That why birth control is a good health policy

The Catholic Church is talking out of both sides of it's mouth. In industrial societies 90% of Catholic women use artificial birth control so they don't breed like rabbits.

[Itchinjim]

2. Should have told my parents that about 60 years ago.

They were very good Catholics when it came to breeding like rabbits.