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Tuesday July 9, 2002
"WITHOUT THE FAMILY THERE CAN BE NO FUTURE" SAYS CARDINAL
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Laments "Poor Europe With Its Demographic Winter"
VATICAN, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - In an interview with the Vatican official news agency Fides, the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, warned that "Everyone, believers or non, have the moral duty to support the family if humanity is to have a future". The interview touched on United Nations population control efforts.
Recalling the United Nations Special Session on Children, the Cardinal fondly remembered the motto of various youth at the conference: "We are not the source of the problems, we are the resources... to solve them." The Cardinal suggested that UNICEF did not expect such a motto and explained that "children are not an insupportable weight, are not the cause of nature's pollution, but are instead a great resource for the family and society."
"Poor are the nations that attack the source of life with contraception and sterilization, or attack the same life with the crime of abortion (as if it were a 'right'). Poor Europe with its demographic winter!" When asked to expand on his concerns the Cardinal said, "If children are avoided at all costs, as if they were an insupportable weight, and if the pregnancy is seen as a disease, Europe will inevitably arrive at a demographic winter."
The full interview with the Cardinal is available in Italian at:
http://www.fides.org/ita/interviste/lopeztrujillo.html
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