¹²⁴   In what way does the contraception practiced by some couples have a political dimension? Isn't it a purely private affair?

¹²⁵   With her morality, doesn't the Church have a heavy responsibility for the world's demographic growth?

¹²⁶   Why do so many reject the Church's message about misery in the Third World?

¹²⁷   Doesn't the conjugal morality of the Church favor having children?

¹²⁸   According to some specialists, the Church's position in the matter of contraception and demography is going to cause dramatic consequences - notably famine.

¹²⁹   Why would one institute "permits to procreate" in wealthy countries where the birth rate is suffering such a disquieting decline?

¹³⁰   Where do we find the Church's teaching on population? Isn't it contained in her pro-birth conjugal morality?

¹³¹   Doesn't the Church completely neglect the demographic problems when she proclaims her beautiful principles concerning development?

¹³²   In the question of demography, aren't Catholic moralists showing bad faith? In effect, they say that development entails a drop in the birth rate, but they hide the fact that this decline in the birth rate is obtained, in developed countries, by methods condemned by the Church.

¹³³   Isn't it dreaming to imagine that natural methods can be widely distributed and used?

¹³⁴   Isn't it out of naïveté, if not a provocative spirit, on the part of Christians to advocate recourse to natural methods?

¹³⁵   Do discussions concerning natural methods refer us, then, to an in-depth reflection on human development?

¹³⁶   What, then, is the heart of the Church's social teaching on demography?

¹³⁷   Why do the ideologues of demographic security give so much attention to ecological problems?

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