Well, I was brought up a catholic (although I don't know what I'd be classed as now), and I agree the Church is very out of date. However, this above comment re contraception is a common complaint, but it doesn't hold much weight with me. After all, there are a lot of things the church says to do and not do. Like don't kill, don't steal, no sex before marriage, no adultery and so on. Does everyone in Africa follow this? Of course not. They do what they do for other reasons. It's a convenient excuse (as usual) to blame religion for what are very human problems.
Also, re kids and not being able to feed them. I was horrified to discover last year, that some of the children who were abandoned and starving and receiving aid from charities were discovered to be part of the same family as children who were looked after by their parents and fed. In other words, the parents chose to keep one and abandon the other. Why? Because one was a boy and one was a girl.