Others' use benefits Catholics
Randall Lannie
class of '99
I do not mean to argue against any of the points Professor Rice made in his column Tuesday about contraception and its serious demographic effects. I would, however, like to point out a potential silver lining in the cloud that is our collective "race suicide."
An Italian friend of mine first made this observation when I asked him about the low Italian birth rate. He said that when almost everyone is practicing contraception or abortion to keep from having children to raise, then the only ones left actually having them are the devout. I found that to be a positive spin on a bad situation.
Let the liberals, atheists and selfish materialists contraceive themselves out of existence. Then, in a few generations, if we serious Catholics do our part (as Professor Rice has done his), then the country will be half Catholic. We will have to have even more kids than would otherwise be necessary, since the bad guys still run the government, schools and media. So our families will suffer some attrition; but we can do it.
Imagine: Take 1,000 kids at Notre Dame who are faithful, generous and open to life, and suppose they go marry and have 10 kids each, raising them in the Church, not at the mall. Then their kids have 10 kids and do the same. In 50 years, you have 100,000 devout Catholics, minus the few who get led astray by those forces already mentioned. One hundred thousand serious believers can accomplish a lot. And the kids we cannot have ourselves, we can adopt, as ready-made troops whom we can form into soldiers for God. Having plenty of kids and raising them right may be all we can do to help our society, and kids are much more fun than expensive cars or houses.
Randall Lannie
class of '99
Feb. 12, 2002
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