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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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    Abortion law rushed and undemocratic ·  October 14, 2019

  • Bev ”But I have seen how young women flirt with priests. ” That a woman of Joy’s mana would make this statement and that Cathnews would print it is a cause of concern to me. A young woman is exactly that, young, inexperienced, vulnerable, discovering who she is as a woman, an individual, and as a...

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  • Mon The history is complicated, but well documented in studies such as Stefan Heid’s 'Celibacy in the Early Churc'h. Yes, indeed, during the first millennium it was perfectly regular for married men to be ordained deacon or priest, but they had to separate from their wives beforehand. Technically not...

    Being human ·  October 7, 2019

  • Mon Wrong, so wrong. Having celibate priests reflect the wisdom of the church. If we change to allow married priests we will just get divorced and adulterous priests. Just look at the Anglican church for proof of this. Joy ignores the fact that the vast majority of priests throughout the world are...

    Being human ·  October 7, 2019

  • Father_Ron Today, being the Feastday of his name-sake - Francis of Assisi - I, as an Anglican priest in Aotearoa/NZ, thank God for the ministry, the Love, Joy and Peace in the heart and mind of the Roman Pontiff. May God give him many years of his special Apostolate in the Universal Church. He is an...

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