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Pope
Francis has clarified remarks he made on Monday that Catholics didn’t need to
breed like rabbits and that large families weren’t a cause of poverty, saying
that economic injustices were the main reason for inequality.
RT.com reports the
pope originally made the controversial comments about birth control, while on a
plane returning from a trip to Asia on Monday.
"Some
think, and excuse the term, that to be good Catholics, they must be like
rabbits," the Pontiff said.
Some
commentators on social media said his comments were offensive to people who had
or were raised in large families.
He
has now explained what he meant by his words at his weekly general audience at
the Vatican in Rome.
"I
have heard it said that families with many children and the birth of many
children are among the causes of poverty. I think that is a simplistic
opinion," he said.
The
pope explained that the world’s economic system where money is the most
important thing and a “throw
away culture” were in fact the main causes of poverty. He also said
that children are a gift from God.
“Healthy
families are essential to the life of society. It provides us with consolation
and hope to see so many large families who welcome children as a gift from
God,” he said.
However,
he did restate that he supports the Catholic Church’s ban on artificial birth
control and insisted that there are “many ways that are allowed” to practice
natural birth control.
The Catholic Church backs
natural birth control such as abstinence, or not having sex during a woman’s
fertile period.
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