Sunday, August 15, 2004 Speak out: Birth control myth By Friar Romuald, OFM Conv
There seems to be a conspiracy to eliminate the human person. Amid the hopelessness and struggles of our present age, a handful of men and women are manipulating society to destroy the very heart of its life: the Family.
It is grossly malicious to mislead the public into believing that their natural and holy mission is wrong. It is harrowing to think that the fate of our children and their value are being determined by mere statistics and simple mathematics.
People seem to forget that at the heart of our struggles are the joys and hopes that cannot be taken away.
True, we are languishing in poverty. But is it even accurate to blame the whole matter on the growth of the population? Isn't it true that if properly distributed, the goods of the earth are enough to support the whole human race?
Survey the halls of the opulent and the mighty and one can clearly see the surplus of wealth being hoarded by the hypocrite lords of this age! The useless war waged by governments, so generously funded, is enough to put an end to poverty.
Population growth is the least of our worries.
The propaganda about birth control and population explosion is a baseless and cheap dialectics. There was never an academic conclusion that can support the Malthus paper, yet some individuals keep forcing it down our gullets.
Only three truths remain: 1) Properly distributed, the resources we have are enough to support us all up to the last generation; 2) Men and women still constitute the greatest wealth of a nation, and its future rests solely upon the children that will proceed from a loving family; 3) God is at the heart of every struggle--he will never abandon the world into chaos.
On his way to Calvary the Lord spoke to the mourning women, "daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead ... for your children (cf. Lk. 23:28)."
We must not allow ourselves to be drowned in despair. Rather, we need to summon the last ounce of hope from our hearts and battle the forces that threaten to obliterate humanity. If not, we will bring upon our people a "mourning that cannot be consoled like Rachel's because her children are no more (cf. Jer. 31:15)."
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