Benedictions: The Pope in America

Be faithful and multiply?

Thursday April 24, 2008

Great headline on a Catholic World News report citing a German study linking religiosity and the number of children:

"Women of faith found more fertile"

Think of all the money you could save on IVF, huh? Well, actually, CWNews is right that the study is a no-brainer: religious observance does correlate to larger families. But I'm not sure it proves prayer is the secret to fertility.

Berlin, Apr. 24, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A demographic study by Germany's Max Planck Institute has found a high correlation between women's religious attitudes and the number of children they bear, the KNA news agency reports.

The Max Planck Institute study, which involved research in 18 different countries, found that women who identify themselves are religious are far more likely than their non-religious counterparts to bear two or more children.



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The last update to the Benedictions blog was in April 2008. We welcome your comments about the Pope and Catholicism in general in our http://community.beliefnet.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=140”>Catholic forums.

David Gibson is an award-winning religion writer who specializes in writing about the Catholic Church, which he joined as a convert at the age of 30. He is the author The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World. He also wrote The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism. He has written about Catholicism for leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Boston magazine, Fortune, Commonweal, and America. Gibson worked in Rome for Vatican Radio for several years and traveled frequently with Pope John Paul II. He later covered religion for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. He has co-written several recent documentaries on Christianity for CNN. For further information check out his website at dgibson.com.

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