Yahoo – AFP, Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere, 20 Jan 2015
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Pope
Francis speaks to journalist onboard a plane during his trip back to
Rome on
January 19, 2015 (AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace)
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Rome (AFP)
- Pope Francis has said that good Catholics do not have to breed "like
rabbits", defending the Church's stance on artificial contraception and
appealing to the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics to practise responsible
parenting.
Speaking to
journalists on his flight back from the Philippines, the pope said that he once
asked a mother of seven children who was pregnant with her eighth if she wanted
to "leave behind seven young orphans".
"She
said, 'I trust in God.' But God gave us the means to be responsible," the
pope said. "Some think, and excuse the term, that to be good Catholics,
they must be like rabbits."
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Pope
Francis takes part in a mass at a
park in Manila on January 18, 2015
(AFP Photo/Osservatore Romano)
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Following
the church's teachings did not mean "Christians should have children one
after the other", he said.
His
comments came at the end of a trip to the Philippines, the Catholic Church's
Asian stronghold, which last year passed a family planning law after a 15-year
battle by the Church to block state-sanctioned contraception.
The law
allows the government to begin distributing free contraceptives to millions of
poor Filipinos.
It was a
rare loss for the Church, which has for centuries been one of the nation's most
powerful institutions and continues to count more than 80 percent of the
nation's 100 million people as Catholics.
'Responsible parenthood'
The pope
said that his predecessor had foreseen the rise in policies restricting
childbirth.
"Paul
VI was worried by the growth of neo-Malthusianism" (which advocates restricting
the number of children the poor can have) which tried to "put a control on
humanity... he was a prophet," he said.
"The
key teaching of the Church is responsible parenthood. And how do we get that?
By dialogue. There are marriage groups in the Church, experts and
pastors," he added.
In 2013,
six months after becoming pope, Francis urged the Church to drop its
"obsession" with contraception, divorce, gays and abortion, in an
interview signalling a dramatic shift in the Vatican's tone.
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Pope
Francis greets the crowd after
celebrating mass at a park in Manila on
January
18, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe)
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He stressed
at the time that the Church's official position had not changed, but said that
it should "always keep in mind the individual".
Francis'
papacy -- he is the first Jesuit pope and the first from South America -- has
marked a series of breaks with Vatican tradition.
The pope
has become known for his humility and concern for the poor, and has reached out
to non-believers and those in other religions. He regularly picks up the phone
to call ordinary people who write to him.
His latest
comments are not the first this month to attract attention for their candour.
Last week when discussing the deadly attack by Islamist gunmen angered by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, the pope said: "If a good friend speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched."
Last week when discussing the deadly attack by Islamist gunmen angered by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, the pope said: "If a good friend speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched."
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"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
“… 3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…
Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].
Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”
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