The biggest problem in Poland has been the incredibly low birth rate, lower than almost any country in Europe, reaching the dire levels of Japan and South Korea. This Polish Catholic hypocrisy has been going on for decades, where Poles loved Saint John Paul II, but never really listened to him. Before, the birth rate was only low in citi…
The biggest problem in Poland has been the incredibly low birth rate, lower than almost any country in Europe, reaching the dire levels of Japan and South Korea. This Polish Catholic hypocrisy has been going on for decades, where Poles loved Saint John Paul II, but never really listened to him. Before, the birth rate was only low in cities, but now even the villages and small towns, the main suppliers of priestly and religious vocations, have a very low birth rate. This is even despite the fact that the Law and Justice Party had implemented a very generous support system in which each family received about a $125 stipend per month per kid (and even additional funds for larger families), along with money paid for vacation time for kids and the Card of the Large Family for families with 3 or more kids which allowed for major discounts at stores, museums, zoos, and many perks (like first dibs for public swimming pools free of charge). I saw this dramatic decline in Poland when I was there with my familiy last summer, where the lack of children was quite obvious, especially during Sunday Masses. It was most obvious at the main Archdiocesan Corpus Christi procession in Wroclaw (the 3rd largest city in Poland) last June. In the 1980's this procession was packed with tens of thousands of people. Even in the 2000's if was quite full. Well, in 2023, my 7 year old daughter was one of only about 20 flower girls and my 9 year old son was one of only 5 boys ringing bells when there used to be hundreds of boys and girls just 20 years ago in a city with 638,000 inhabitants (Corpus Christii is a national holiday so all the kids were out of school that day).. The procession, was interupted by people walking around doing their daily shopping, making noise, looking at the few hundred people participating in the Eucharistic procession as weirdos. It broke my heart to have my Polish-American kids witness this obvious decline in faith in Poland which was not subtle, but in your face apostasy. There is no surprise that the liberals and leftists won in a country that is losing its moral backbone.
The biggest problem in Poland has been the incredibly low birth rate, lower than almost any country in Europe, reaching the dire levels of Japan and South Korea. This Polish Catholic hypocrisy has been going on for decades, where Poles loved Saint John Paul II, but never really listened to him. Before, the birth rate was only low in cities, but now even the villages and small towns, the main suppliers of priestly and religious vocations, have a very low birth rate. This is even despite the fact that the Law and Justice Party had implemented a very generous support system in which each family received about a $125 stipend per month per kid (and even additional funds for larger families), along with money paid for vacation time for kids and the Card of the Large Family for families with 3 or more kids which allowed for major discounts at stores, museums, zoos, and many perks (like first dibs for public swimming pools free of charge). I saw this dramatic decline in Poland when I was there with my familiy last summer, where the lack of children was quite obvious, especially during Sunday Masses. It was most obvious at the main Archdiocesan Corpus Christi procession in Wroclaw (the 3rd largest city in Poland) last June. In the 1980's this procession was packed with tens of thousands of people. Even in the 2000's if was quite full. Well, in 2023, my 7 year old daughter was one of only about 20 flower girls and my 9 year old son was one of only 5 boys ringing bells when there used to be hundreds of boys and girls just 20 years ago in a city with 638,000 inhabitants (Corpus Christii is a national holiday so all the kids were out of school that day).. The procession, was interupted by people walking around doing their daily shopping, making noise, looking at the few hundred people participating in the Eucharistic procession as weirdos. It broke my heart to have my Polish-American kids witness this obvious decline in faith in Poland which was not subtle, but in your face apostasy. There is no surprise that the liberals and leftists won in a country that is losing its moral backbone.