The head of the church stated that a change of trend is needed in Europe with reforms that put the family at the center.
Pope Francis called the demographic situation in Europe a cold and dark winter at the Rome meeting on the problem of declining births on Friday. In the same place, the Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, also called for a new family policy. Pope Francis stated that a change in trend is needed in Europe with reforms that put the family at the center.
He believed that the majority of young people want children, but their desires are frozen by the cold and dark demographic winter that dominates Europe.
He noted that the so-called old European continent no longer bears that epithet because of its glorious past, but because of the advanced age of its population. The head of the Catholic Church called for "generational sustainability", citing as an example the young people impoverished in the epidemic situation, who, according to the Pope, can only found a family with social and economic solidarity.
“If families are not at the center of the present, there will be no future; but if the families start again, then everything starts again, "he emphasized.
Source: mandiner.hu
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