During a general audience at the Vatican, he said “Today … we see a form of selfishness. We see that some people do not want to have a child. Sometimes they have one, and that’s it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality.”
Pet keeping was “a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity”, he said. The consequence was that “civilization grows old without humanity because we lose the richness of fatherhood and motherhood, and it is the country that suffers”.
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