Catholic Doctrine and Science on Demographic Issues

The article presents basic demographic trends in Slovenia and globally with an emphasis on the extinction of small European nations like Slovenia. Based on an analysis of the decrease in the number of births worldwide and in Slovenia, we introduce proposals of Catholic doctrine and Slovenian scientific findings to increase the number of births. The article shows that there is definite coherence between the views of the Catholic religious doctrine on demographic issues taught by the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana and findings of the Slovenian demographic profession on how to solve the demographic crisis.