Rosales: Church partly to blame for high population growth

THE Catholic Church shares the blame for the country’s runaway population because it has been remiss in its duty to enlighten couples on the natural method of family planning, according to Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales.

Rosales’ pronouncement, which he made Monday before the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap), is a rare acknowledgment from a high Church official of the Church’s shortcomings in checking the high population growth, which is running at 2.36 percent.