The pope’s opinion of population control takes on added interest in light of comments made by John Holdren, the president elect’s newly chosen science adviser. In a presentation he made in 2007 called Global Climate Disruption - What Do We Know, What Should We Do? the first item on his list of options to address the problem is … population control.
Doesn’t Pope Benedict support the global warming hypothesis?
So,
I have not seen any evidence that the Pope supports the global warming hypothesis.
Global warming discussions and policy proposals have little to do with science.
Maybe he does, but that doesn’t have much to do with population control, which most often ends up being coercive policies aimed at limiting the size of families among the poor/minorities. Population control is one of the eugenics movement’s surviving children, and it is rightly condemned.
Perhaps and perhaps not. Either way, it is up to the scientific community to determine this, not the church - UNLESS and UNTIL the global warming folks cross the line into moral realms (which is starting to happen and will get worse soon). The pope will and must speak out when people attempt to use scientific theories to challenge christian morality and teaching.
Taking a subjective moral judgementMaybe he does, but that doesn’t have much to do with population control, which most often ends up being coercive policies aimed at limiting the size of families among the poor/minorities. Population control is one of the eugenics movement’s surviving children, and it is rightly condemned.
Of course, the title of this thread (and many others that report on what Benedict XVI says) could be, “Pope Still Catholic! Film at Eleven!”
– Mark L. Chance.
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