PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE DOGS OVER CHILDREN ARE CHASTISED BY POPE FRANCIS

  • 07/01/2022

Pope Francis chastised people who choose not to have children in favour of pets. On Wednesday, the Pope addressed a broad audience and focused his talk on fatherhood.


 "We have so many children without fathers and the challenges of this in society today, we notice," Pope Francis said. "Fathers are not born but made. A man does not become a father by bringing a child into the world, but by taking up the responsibility to care for that child." He used the example of Joseph, who brought up Jesus, and parents who choose to adopt children. 

Pope Francis said "many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they only have one and not more. But they have domestic animals – two dogs, two cats." He called the decision not to have children a form of "selfishness,". 

Giving up motherhood or fatherhood, he warned, "may steal some of our humanity away from us," and that societies can suffer as a result.
The pope stated that while having a child is a risk, not having one is a greater danger. He stated that many children around the world are in need of care, and that adoption should be explored, even if it is tough. He stated, "I wish that no one feels bereft of paternal affection."

According to the Washington Post, Pope Francis remarked in 2014 that individuals who replace children with dogs and cats experience "bitterness of loneliness" in old age.

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