{"id":38759,"date":"2026-05-26T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/pope-leo-xiv-europe-is-aging-and-the-pandemic-of-loneliness-is-growing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:45:55","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-europe-is-aging-and-the-pandemic-of-loneliness-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/pope-leo-xiv-europe-is-aging-and-the-pandemic-of-loneliness-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV: Europe is aging and the pandemic of loneliness is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/papa-leoniii.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s demographic issue is an urgent challenge with practical implications for millions of people and their families in what is becoming the Old Continent, no longer because of its glorious history but because of its age, Pope Leo XIV told an audience of members of the European Parliament on Demography today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problems arising from zero population growth are many and complex, and include, not least, the pandemic of Moreover, the demographic data are not simple statistics. They speak of fatherhood, motherhood and children, &#8220;said Pope Leone XIV, who also pointed out the &#8220;rejection of the Christian inspiration of the European institutions&#8221;, which &#8220;has led to a period of drastic sterility&#8221;. promote discrimination against motherhood, exalt abortion as a right and undermine the very foundations of the desire to form a family&#8221;, added the pope commenting that &#8220;fortunately, there are exceptions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demographic challenge represents a decisive moment for the anthropological, social and economic future of Europe and the family is the first and irreplaceable school of social life and is based on marriage between a man and a woman, a reality that unites the personal and public dimensions&#8221;, he emphasized he, writes ANSA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only a new spring for the family can transform the winter cold of our aging populations&#8221;, he concluded.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s demographic issue is an urgent challenge with practical implications for millions of people and their families in what is becoming the Old Continent, no longer because of its glorious history but because of its age, Pope Leo XIV told an audience of members of the European Parliament on Demography today. &#8220;The problems arising from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-38759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":28,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38761,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38759\/revisions\/38761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}