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Population control not needed Comments 0

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Contrary to the fear mongering of the population alarmists, the world isn’t heading for a demographic catastrophe. The latest data on world population from the U.N. Population Division reveals a number of trends that seem to indicate otherwise. The following is PRI’s brief overview of some of the findings from the recently released 2015 Revision Read more

Tags: demography, population, Population Control
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NZ bucks religiosity trend Comments 1

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

New Zealand is one of only three countries in which religiosity is predicted to decline between now and 2050. The other two are France and the Netherlands. These are some of the predictions made by Washington-based think-tank, Pew Research Centre, in a recently published report. The report predicted that by 2050 In the Asia Pacific Read more

• Religious affiliation fades as New Zealand bucks trend
• Islam's appeal grows worldwide

Tags: Atheism, Christian religion, demography, Secularism, Statistics, unbelief
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The curse of small families Comments 0

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

We all know what’s coming. Everywhere in the developed world, populations are greying. The media are full of stories about the surge in the numbers of the elderly within the next 20 years, while governments have been pushing the age of retirement entitlements upward. Most of the spotlight has been on the new greybeards themselves—the Read more

Tags: Aging, baby boomers, demography, families, Family, fertility rates, population
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  • Richard I doubt many think the laity should be less involved in the Church, or that lay-led groups for evangelisation, catechism, and service are bad things. They're great, let's have more of them. But the reality is we still need more priests. I'm a young adult, with two children. In my entire...

    Door still open on married priests, women deacons ·  February 21, 2020

  • Richard I just don't understand these people. If you don't accept the Church's authority on this issue (which has been settled for over two millenia), then clearly you don't accept the Church's authority at all. How could you believe that the Church is divinely instituted if you could believe that God has...

    Spearheading transition to a gender appropriate Catholic Church ·  February 21, 2020

  • Bridget Crisp I enjoyed the analysis on Querida Amazonia. I think it is an excellent document and should sit alongside Laudato Si when we are responding to the impact human consumption is having on the planet. Within the first couple of pages, I saw the parallels with colonisation within Aotearoa. For me,...

    Querida Amazonia: A Reflection ·  February 20, 2020

  • MaritimeMike One of the most vicious lies around is that of some sort of inherent conflict between Islam and Christianity. There are multiple examples of Christian, Muslims and Jews working together in peace. Both faiths, however, have charlatans, frauds and hate mongers in their ranks who fan the fires of...

    Muslims help rebuild Catholic church ·  February 18, 2020

  • MaritimeMike Agreed! Alas, you can't have a lay-led church so long as half the laity are regarded and treated as second class citizens...

    Pope Francis, neither yes nor not to married priests ·  February 18, 2020

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