A new Vatican document decries how childbirth and population growth are viewed by modern society as ‘the major threat to humanity’, urging instead that families must ensure they protect life from conception until natural death.
Laudato Si’ and Amoris Laetitia are hardly the least polemical works of Pope Francis’s pontificate, and thus many will perhaps be surprised that the two have jointly been cited by the Vatican in a move to – amid other things – push back against the attack on the sanctity of life and large families.
