From the New York Times:

But with [Pope Francis’s] latest choice of words — he said this week that Catholics should not feel compelled to breed “like rabbits” — the pope appears to have set a new standard for the papal vernacular, amusing to some and insulting to others. Speaking to reporters Monday on a return flight from a weeklong trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines, the pope made the remark about rabbits (“excuse the expression,” he added) and said Catholics should instead practice responsible parenthood, noting that various birth control options exist that do not defy the church’s ban on contraception.

The Philippines are one of the few countries where the Roman Catholic Church’s aversion to contraception seems to play a substantive role in keeping fertility up, perhaps due to the Church’s legacy of popularity from Cardinal Sin’s stand against the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980s.

And even there it has been declining steadily.

On the other hand, population lags about 40 or 50 years behind changes in fertility.

So the population of the Philippines is likely to increase well into the second half of the century.

The latest UN forecast has the population of the Philippines peaking at around 185 million late in the 21st Century.