Reply #27: The Catholic Church's position on birth control makes it irrelevant to solving the problem of poverty [View All]

[olegramps]

The nations that rejected the Catholic Church's ridiculous position on effect birth control measures realized that uncontrolled procreation leads to massive starvation and a life of deprivation. The Catholic Church could have been an effect organization that could have assisted families in achieving responsible parenthood. Rather than assisting families the Church encouraged irresponsible rates of growth that has created the situation of massive starvation that they now deplore. Everyone of the issues that he addressed is directly related to the unrestricted population growth.

I don't see where the Catholic Church has anything of value to contributed to solving the current situation when in fact it is a major factor in creating the present desperate state that many people find themselves in. The Catholic Church was provided an opportunity by Pope John XXXIII to adopt a more reasonable stance, however, fearing that papal authority would lose credibility if it reverse its position they consigned the church to a position of intransigent ignorance.