CatholicIreland.net published a commentary on August 10 focused on a July 11 press release by the European Union’s Commissioner of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
CI quoted Pope JP II as saying Europe’s present under-population crisis is directly related to Europe’s loss of its Christian identity.
This is clear in the EU press release, which identifies the need for more children but calls childbearing a “burden,” rather than what Scripture calls it, a “blessing.”
Until the EU changes its worldview, it will find no solution. See its quandary, which I have pulled verbatim from its press release, forced on it by its secular worldview:

To balance work and family life better, the European Social Model needs to be modernized and the EU’s economy needs to pick up. Europe’s demographic changes means it needs more children, a higher percentage of working women and care for the increasing number of elderly. The EU can tackle this ‘magic triangle’ if everyone helps share the burden, through new ways of balancing work/family life. But failure to do so would directly hit Europe’s future economic growth, as well as putting a potentially unbearable burden on women’s shoulders….
Placing the burden of having more children, working more and caring for the growing number of elderly at the door of women is neither practical nor fair – requiring therefore new policies, mentalities and attitudes to confront the EU’s demographic challenges.

I await the EU’s solution to its crisis of needing more children to save itself from extinction but not wanting to encourage women to have them.

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