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# And a Whimper Goes Up from Eric Scheske
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2227/
- Published: 2005-09-01T10:19:02.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-01T10:19:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Family, Religion, #wpChunk

Seven in eleven years. Not enough?

> Pope Benedict XVI told Catholics to have more babies "for the good of society," saying that some countries were being sapped of energy because of low birth rates.

> "Having children is a gift that brings life and well-being to society," he told about 15,000 people at his weekly audience in the Vatican, to which he arrived by helicopter from his summer residence southeast of Rome.

> He said the decline in the number of births "deprives some nations of freshness and energy and of hopes for the future incarnate in children."

> The pope also spoke of "the security, the stability and the force of a numerous family."

[Link](http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050831/1/3un34.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).