2014 Fertility Crisis
Recent data suggests that fertility in the United States is at an all-time low. What are some causes of this? And where, if any, lie our best hopes for moving past it?
Conversion is a game-changer in the fertility crisis. Catholics must live as if children are a gift to be cherished—not a “right” to be demanded of God when we finally decide we’re “ready.”
Apart from the obvious economic dimensions of America’s fertility crisis is a timeless spiritual crisis—a crisis of the theological virtue of hope.
In order to resolve America’s “fertility crisis,” we need to do more than change the GDP or the job market; we need to change the way we think.
Recently released numbers reflecting American opinions on sexual ethics and indicating record-low fertility rates underscores the imperative for all American Catholics to engage fully the anticipated discussion topics of October’s Extraordinary Synod.
Can we reconfigure the parish as a site of fertile resistance to capitalist (in-)fertility, especially when we have John Paul II’s groundbreaking insights in Love and Responsibility and Man and Woman He Created Them?
