{"id":1160972,"date":"2021-12-27T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160972"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:36:48","slug":"pope-francis-warns-of-italys-demographic-winter-amidst-dwindling-birth-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-warns-of-italys-demographic-winter-amidst-dwindling-birth-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Warns Of Italy\u2019s \u2018Demographic Winter\u2019 Amidst Dwindling Birth Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-warns-of-italys-demographic-winter-amidst-dwindling-birth-rates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The head of the Roman Catholic Church warned Sunday morning against the \u201cdemographic winter\u201d caused by low-birth rates impacting countries around the world and in particular Italy. Pope Francis made his remarks during Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/angelus\/2021\/documents\/papa-francesco_angelus_20211226.html\">Angelus<\/a> in celebration of the Catholic Church\u2019s \u201cFeast of the Holy Family\u201d and echoed similar comments he made this past spring regarding why a childless future would harm all of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth,\u201d Pope Francis told the crowd in St. Peter\u2019s Square during his daily address and prayer. \u201cGod chose a humble and simple family through which to come into our midst. Let us contemplate in amazement the beauty of this mystery, emphasizing two concrete aspects for our families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first: the family is the story from which we originate. Each one of us has our own story,\u201d the pope continued. \u201cNone of us was born magically, with a magic wand. We all have our own story and the family is the story from which we originate. The Gospel of today\u2019s liturgy reminds us that even Jesus is the son of a family story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis also said that \u201cwe need to learn each day how to be a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach day, a family needs to learn how to listen to each other to understand each other, to walk together, to face conflicts and difficulties,\u201d he noted. \u201cIt is a daily challenge and it is overcome with the right attitude, through simple actions, caring for the details of our relationships. And this too helps us a lot in order to talk within the family, talk at table, dialogue between parents and children, dialogue among siblings. It helps us experience our family roots that come from our grandparents. Dialogue with the grandparents!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope added, however, that \u201cthe demographic winter\u201d of families postponing having children or having fewer children was a \u201creal concern\u201d of his, particularly in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems that many couples prefer not to have children or to have only one child. Think about this,\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIt is a tragedy. A few minutes ago, I saw on Sua Immagine&nbsp;how they were speaking about this serious problem, the demographic winter. Let us do everything possible to regain an awareness to overcome this demographic winter that goes against our families, about our country, even against our future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Italian birthrate has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/567936\/birth-rate-in-italy\/\">dwindled<\/a> down from 9.4 to 6.8 per 1,000 inhabitants since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Pope Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2021-05\/pope-francis-general-state-of-births-italy.html\">stated<\/a> that \u201cthe lack of children, which causes an aging population, implicitly affirms that everything ends with us, that only our individual interests count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that, the pope also encouraged nations and public policymakers to place families at the center of society last spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf families are not at the center of the present, there will be no future; but if families restart, everything restarts,\u201d he empasized.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has previously acknowledged that his pro-family position may not be popular but encouraged like-minded individuals to preserve:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you will feel as if you are shouting in the desert, fighting against windmills,\u201d the Pope said. \u201cBut go ahead, do not give up, because it is beautiful to dream the good and build the future. And without births, there is no future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Roman Catholic Church warned Sunday morning against the \u201cdemographic winter\u201d caused by low-birth rates impacting countries around the world and in particular Italy. Pope Francis made his remarks during Sunday\u2019s Angelus in celebration of the Catholic Church\u2019s \u201cFeast of the Holy Family\u201d and echoed similar comments he made this past spring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}