Have the courage to have children despite climate change and wars, Pope Francis says

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnVATICAN CITY (RNS) — Amid plummeting birthrates in many countries around the world, Pope Francis urged young people to “go against the current” and have children, during his speech at a conference on natality near the Vatican on Friday (May 10).Francis entered the hall on Via della Conciliazione near the Vatican in his wheelchair while hundreds of young people, couples and children greeted him with a standing ovation at the meeting of the States General on Natality.
Friday marked the fourth year that the pope has attended the meeting, which gathers politicians, journalists, intellectuals and entrepreneurs to address the problems and propose possible solutions for declining birth rates.
“I know that for many of you, the future may see unsettling, and that between falling birth rates, wars, pandemics and climate change it’s not easy to keep hope alive,” the pope said, “but don’t give up, have faith, because tomorrow is not something inevitable: We build it together, and this together we find first and foremost with the Lord.”
Francis encouraged young people to not “follow a script written by others. Let’s row to turn the tide, even at the cost of going against the current.”
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