Fri May 12, 2023 – 5:34 pm EDT
ROME (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took the stage together to give an address during a conference on collapsing birth rates in Italy.
On May 12, the second day of the two-day conference “States General on natality,” Meloni said during her keynote speech that “[i]f women do not have the opportunity to fulfill their desire for motherhood without having to give up professional fulfillment, it is not that they will not have equal opportunities, they will not have freedom.”
“We want to give Italians back a country where being fathers and mothers is a socially recognized value and not a private matter,” the Italian Prime Minister stated. “A nation where having a child is a beautiful thing, which does not take anything away from you and does not prevent you from anything and which gives you a lot. For decades, the dominant culture has told us otherwise, I think it’s time to reverse the trend.”
Meloni posited that “talking about motherhood and families is a revolutionary act” and stressed that “natality is the priority of our action so that Italy returns to have
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