Throw-away culture worships the god of money

Everyone is at the service of god of money. But that is why what doesn’t serve the god of money is thrown away. And what the globalized world today offers us is a throw-away culture: what is useless is thrown away. Children are thrown away, because people are not having children or because they are killed before they are born. The elderly are thrown away, because... old people are useless... and now whoever doesn’t have a job goes and looks for his grandparents because their pension might help! But they are useful momentarily. The elderly are thrown away, abandoned. And now, work must diminish because the god of money can’t do everything, and so young people are thrown away.

--Pope Francis to Community of Christian Life, 30 April 2015

To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error:
-contraception, which is to make love without making a child;
-artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love;
-abortion, which is to unmake the child; and
-pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.

- Jérôme Lejeune

CHILDREN ARE GIFTS

Psalm 127
3 Children too are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children born in one's youth.

The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest traditions of your continent, the arrival of a child is always a gift, a blessing from God. Today it is high time to place greater emphasis on this: every human being, every tiny human person, however weak, is created "in the image and likeness of God" (Gen 1:27). Every person must live! Death must not prevail over life! Death will never have the last word!

(Benedict XVI, Homily, 19 March 2009)