Catholic Press Critical Of Population Report
— ^ Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, June 24. Catholic newspapers have given a* critical reception to the report on tne population of Britain issued this weeK by a Royal Commission. The editoriai in "Universe" referred to its "shrieking Iblasphemy. ' ' The paper said it showed "eallous treatments of people as though they were things. What is essential in the report of this commission is the idea that people who in"tne opinion of the eommissioners are of lower intelligence should be discouraged from breeding. " Count Michael de la Deboyere, editor of the Catholic Herald, Wrote that the report raised /'very great moral problems" for Christians. He thought it failed because "it almost entirely overlooks. the spiritual nature of man," and because it failed to deal adequately with the problem of the expeeted lopsided composition of our future population. "Its whole trend is likely to encourage a further decrease in population," he wfote. The Catholic Times suggested that it was not economic stringency whien deterred people from having families, but "loss of faith and growth of the belief that there is no moral wrong in the' use of artificial eontraceptives. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 June 1949, Page 5
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