Catholic teaching challenges award for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s two-child limit
An environmental charity recently awarded Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for limiting their family to two children. EWTN Pro-Life Weekly host Catherine Hadro rejects this "role model", saying; "not every couple is called to have or will be blessed with a large family, but to shut off God’s plan for your family is to shut up the creator Himself.”
In honour of World Population Day, British charity Population Matters presented the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with a “special award” for “choosing and publicly declaring their intention to limit their family to two.”
Among other things, the charity congratulated them for “helping to ensure a better future for their children, and providing a role model for other families.” The group called their family size limit an “enlightened decision,” and said the couple’s environmentally-friendly example showed that a “smaller family is also a happy family.”
The award came after Prince Harry revealed that he wanted two children “maximum!” in a 2019 British Vogue interview.
“I’ve always thought: This place is borrowed,” he said. “And, surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are supposed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation.”
The royal couple has already reached their self-imposed limit with their two-year-old son Archie and one-month-old Lilabet Diana.
Catholic leaders challenge this idea, as EWTN Pro-Life Weekly reported on July 17. Pope St. John Paul II once stressed that an appreciation of the human person is necessary for interest in others – and the earth.
EWTN Pro-Life Weekly host Catherine Hadro said, “the answer is to care for both the environment and human life.”
“We are called to respect the earth our creator made,” she explained. “But we must also respect the human life our creator makes.”
Hadro also said that she would not be alive today if her grandmother had not been open to life. Her mother, she said, was the youngest of 13 children. She said she is also married today because her mother-in-law welcomed 10 children, the youngest of whom is her husband.
“No, not every couple is called to have or will be blessed with a large family,” she said. “But to shut off God’s plan for your family is to shut up the creator Himself.”
Source: Catholic News Agency
