Catholics and Race Suicide

New Zealand Tablet, 12 August 1909, Page 1263

Catholics and Race Suicide

The future lies with the strong," reliant, moral peoples who keep the cradles full. Extinction in dishonor — such as has almost wiped out the once virile Puritan stock of New England — is the fate that awaits degenerate peoples given to the bull-pup and canary-bird substitutes for the prattling angel and light of the household, the human child. Germany, once under the heel of tlie conquering legions of France, is now the dominant nation of Continental Europe because she was so slow to follow the racesuicide example of France. And the future lies with the Catholic Church because of her decided teaching as to the sacred duties and responsibilities of the married state — a teaching with which Malthusians and Neo-Malthusians long reproached her as it encouraged the growth of population. A striking testimony to the efficacy of that teaching, so far as Great Britain is concerend, is given by Mr. and Mrs. Wlietham (non-Catholic writers) in. the course of an article in the July Nineteenth Century on ' The Extinction of the Upper Classes.' 'It should be noted,' they say, ' that, in respect to the main question now under discussion, the Roman Catholics alone among our families cf good stock, taught by the principles of their religion, have kept a right sense of social responsibility. Among them alone the birthrate is maintained, 'and tlie figures are veiy significant, showing clearly that there is no real decrease in fertility in the classes involved in our survey. If present tendencies continue, the future of England, perhaps of the world, li^s with those born in Roman Catholic homes.'