Hey, he’s entitled to his opinion.
But I bet he never had a cat… 
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Something along the lines of “Go [be fruitful and multiply] yourself, Frank!”?
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OMG - a goth bunny!
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Maybe he hasn’t been chosen by a kitty yet, and is jealous. He’s waiting to be the REAL chosen one.
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I thought Pope Francis had named himself after this Francis Francis Xavier - Wikipedia
But on checking, realised I was mistaken and he had indeed said he chose Francis from Francis of Assisi
Something for the TIL file, I guess
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Yeah, I think that the ship has already sailed on that…
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Says the man with no kids…or pets?
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there are a lot of fundamentalist christian sects/cults which heavily push the “be fruitful and multiply” thing. the duggars were an example, more local to me in central texas one of my sister’s high school friends had 17 children with her husband before she went through menopause and several of the families who attend the same church had double-digit sets of progeny.
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Not all people who wear capes are heroes.
[Riffing on the “not all heroes wear capes” meme. ]
[Did I have to explain it?]
I’ll see myself out.
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True. Some of them are draculas
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People who are (putatively) unmarried/celibate/without family, as a precondition to their employment, feel no irony in their giving marriage, sex, family planning advice/diktat.
(Plus, the only reason he is celibate is because of those misbehaving circa-1400s pope/cardinals/priests-- they spoiled it for everyone! Yet, they make it sound like their celibacy was institutional from the very beginning.) There -will- be a Vatican III, and they -will- let in women/gays to the priesthood, bless same-sex marriage, allow priests to marry. It’s just gonna take another 100-200 years…
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…or we can just ignore or LOL at all the ridiculous bullshit the church demands.
Once a religion moves from offering guidance to issuing orders, it is no longer a religion, and is as far from spirituality as you can get.
It has become politics.
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Literally names himself after the Dr. Dolittle of saints, regularly pictured with a bird on his hand, and then denigrates pets? Really? That’s just too much irony for one day.
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I agree that people decide to have kids or not have kids for many reasons and who cares what the Pope thinks but…
There was a lot more to his speech than just the lines about pets and selfishness. He talked about adoption and the need for for people to take responsibility for the orphans. He talked about just bringing a child into the world does not make you a parent, what makes you a parent is being responsible for that life or any life. He’s advocating for the kids already here that need a home, in my opinion that’s not a bad thing. Although he might have gone with “we claim to be pro life, let’s show the world we mean it by taking care of the unwanted children”.
Part of the transcript.
This kind of choice is among the highest forms of love, and of fatherhood and motherhood. How many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them! And how many married couples want to be fathers and mothers but are unable to do so for biological reasons; or, although they already have children, they want to share their family’s affection with those who do not have it. We should not be afraid to choose the path of adoption, to take the “risk” of welcoming children.
I pray that no one feel deprived of the bond of paternal love. And those who are afflicted with orphanhood, may they go forward without this unpleasant feeling. May Saint Joseph protect, and give his help to orphans; and may he intercede for couples who wish to have a child.
To be a mother or father is not simply a matter of biology; more profoundly, it entails caring for the life of a family. In this sense, one of the highest forms of parenthood is to take on the responsibility of becoming adoptive parents, prepared to welcome an orphaned or abandoned child as part of one’s own family. Let us pray that through Joseph’s intercession, fathers of families will be given the grace to respond to their noble vocation, and that the many children in our world who long for a secure and loving home will find a welcome on the part of good and generous families.
On a side note, it looks the Vatican could use a better website where they actually get the dates right.
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IDK Maybe I read too much into this but I think the natural, logical conclusion from his viewpoint would be to let priests get married. You could always have Something like priests that get married and maybe monks that don’t.
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Will Vatican IV feature a battle between the Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch? Maybe even played by Dolph Lundgren.
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