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Monday, November 18
VIDEO: Pope Francis criticizes the “selfishness” of couples who choose pets instead of having children
Pope Francis praised parenthood and adoption during Wednesday’s general audience at the Vatican and criticized the fact that many couples decide not to have children or only have one, instead, they prefer to have cats and dogs.
Based on the religious passage, the pontiff praised Joseph’s decision to raise Jesus when he addressed the issue of adoption and orphaned children in the present. Then he focused on couples who choose animals instead of children.
At the first general audience of the year, the Pope Francis strongly criticized couples who choose not to have children but have cats and dogs. He warned that denying paternity and motherhood “takes away humanity” and asked not to be afraid of adoption. pic.twitter.com/dEdPfYkdW2
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“Many couples do not have children because they do not want or have only one because they do not want others, but they have two dogs, two cats … Yes, cats and dogs take the place of children. Yes, it makes you laugh, I get it, but it’s reality. And this fact of denying fatherhood and motherhood lowers us, takes away humanity “, he stressed.
For this reason, the pope criticized the so-called “demographic winter” or extreme decline in the population that occurs in many western countries and urged to have children or adopt them.
Finally, referred to adoption, whose “link is not secondary” but rather “this kind of choice is among the highest forms of love and parenthood. How many children in the world expect someone to take care of them! And how many spouses want to be fathers and mothers. ”
“ We must not be afraid of choosing the path of adoption, of taking the “risk ‘of the host. I hope that the institutions are always ready to help in this regard, watching seriously, but also simplifying the necessary procedure so that the dream of so many little ones who need a family, and of so many husbands who want to share that love can be fulfilled, “he concluded. .
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