POPULATION: A papal plea

The Pope, from his walled-in country, has ironically labeled Americans who want to close the borders to the endless millions of poor, suffering immigrants from countries that continue to propagate themselves further into the severely overpopulated, ignorant, fear and apathy-riddled dark ages, as non-Christian. Since the 1965 immigration reform act, the American citizens have absorbed upwards of 100 million immigrants. The situation has not helped the American people or our brothers and sisters globally, yet one cannot deny that Americans have helped their share. The only winners in the overpopulation crisis are the corporations.

The Pope, with his infallible word, recently suspended the Catholic mortal sin sentence on humans who use condoms in areas infected with the Zika virus. It is vital to humankind that the Pope extends his lifting of the Catholic mortal sin sentence to the billions of humans who use and need contraception as an alternative to overpopulation, ignorance, fear, apathy and the resulting starvation, extinctions, wars between people, pollution, terrorism, child abuse, abortions, etc.

The Pope can prove he is the pope of the people by helping humankind step out of the dark ages of overpopulation; a time when one billion children suffer degrading hopeless lives and countless millions of beautiful little souls are born to starve, suffer a horrible existence and to die young with no hope.

MICHAEL JOYCE

Coeur d’Alene