Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jun 12, 2008 / 17:12 pm
Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata warned this week that the fall of the birthrate is “an urgent and very serious problem,” and that “it is not only a cultural, social and political issue, but also an ethical and religious one as well.”
In his television program, “Keys to a Better World,” the archbishop commented on a study published in Italy entitled, “Why We Should Have More Kids. The Consequences of the Drop in Births.”
After recalling the 40th anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae, the archbishop said Paul VI’s letter dealt with “a problem that was already resolved in the moral tradition of the Church.”
“In that encyclical the Pope warned about the consequences that would follow from the alteration of married life and the family order. One of them is what the countries that have entered a sort demographic winter are experiencing,” the archbishop added.