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Pope declares couples who don’t want kids ‘selfish,’ says they are part of a ‘greedy generation’
National Post ^ | February 12, 2015 | Josh Visser

Posted on 02/12/2015 1:07:09 PM PST by rickmichaels

Pope Francis, who presumably has not been woken up at 4 a.m. on a workday by the howls of a tiny human who wants to be fed and/or changed, says that couples who don’t want to have kids are “selfish” and are part of a “greedy generation.”

Pope Francis told an audience in St Peter’s Square, Rome Wednesday that it’s a depressed society that considers children to be a burden.

“A society with a greedy generation, that doesn’t want to surround itself with children, that considers them above all worrisome, a weight, a risk, is a depressed society,” he said.

“The choice to not have children is selfish. Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.”

Pope Francis said there was a strong correlation between hope in society and “inter-generational harmony.”

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; culturalsuicide; culturewar; feminism; infanticide; nuclearfamily; pope; smashmonogamy; smashthepatriarchy; themegeneration; waronchildren; waronmarriage; westerncivilization
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To: sodpoodle

” Who would want to expose innocent sons & daughters to the degeneracy and other terrors that proliferate in our world today?”

Good point. If you have kids and you care about them, you can’t send them to public schools. You can’t let them watch tv, movies, or use the internet unsupervised. You can’t even let them text their friends without peeking over their shoulders constantly for fear that the perversion is sneaking in.

Then, even if you do manage to keep your kids from falling into the sewer, they are going to have to wade out into it anyway, when they become adults, and it will be even worse by then.


21 posted on 02/12/2015 1:26:02 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Says a single man who also doesn’t want children.”

and who advocates for two groups of people in his church (nuns and priests/monks) also never to marry and have children. If their vocation or lifestyle choice is more important than being parents, why doesn’t the same standard apply to other people?


22 posted on 02/12/2015 1:27:44 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Vendome

“But, if they come along then by golly I’ll welcome them.”

Aren’t kids supposed to be a blessing from God?

So, if I have no kids, is it my fault that God hasn’t blessed me? Is that what the Pope is saying? I should try to defy God’s will and go out and make some kids by any means necessary like the death cult liberals?


23 posted on 02/12/2015 1:27:48 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: rickmichaels

I guess every now and then, the Catholics will end up with a loser Pope. This one has many issues.


24 posted on 02/12/2015 1:28:55 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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To: rickmichaels
So are gays selfish, Pope? Oh that's right it's not for him to judge that, but he can judge straight married couples.

More kids is good business for the catholic church
25 posted on 02/12/2015 1:28:57 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: rickmichaels
Yeth, I thaid thelfish. Are you amuthed? The MEaning of Life Monty Python photo: monty 98018976jh7.png
26 posted on 02/12/2015 1:29:27 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: South40
Mrs. 40 and I have the income and we probably would have made great parents. But we chose not to have kids. That does not mean we are greedy, it means we didn't choose to have children.

Yes, many Europeans and Americans have chosen not to have children, for whatever reasons. It does mean that those with very different beliefs than us, namely Muslims, will dominate future generations.

27 posted on 02/12/2015 1:30:17 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
If income is not there to support a family.

Aren't you lucky, your parents could afford you......

Feel fortunate that they decided to keep you and forego that new car..........

28 posted on 02/12/2015 1:31:58 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: rickmichaels

How many Children does the Pope have ?


29 posted on 02/12/2015 1:32:35 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: rickmichaels

My position is that, if you don’t want kids then have them and do anything that might bring one into the world. However, once you do bring a child into the world, than you must do everything you can to support it, even if it means working 15 hour days, every day, and for the next 20 years.


30 posted on 02/12/2015 1:33:02 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: FR_addict
I’m glad when couples who do not want children, don’t have them.

These types of couples usually "don't have them" by killing them (in the womb.) Or, at least, they consider it an available option.

The pope is on to something.

31 posted on 02/12/2015 1:33:16 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: fatnotlazy
There are some people who should never have children.

I have many dozens, ranging from 35 to 15.

They are the future, each and severally effecting the world MY way.

Just kidding!

HAW!

32 posted on 02/12/2015 1:33:56 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: tumblindice

Maybe then, thentuwionm you would like to mock the pwoblemth of my vewy good fwiend, Incontinentia Buttox?


33 posted on 02/12/2015 1:34:05 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: South40

Cradle Catholics aren’t the paying kind.


34 posted on 02/12/2015 1:34:41 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: rickmichaels

Is there anything this Pope won’t comment on? He generates a quote a day. I agree with some, I don’t agree with others, but at this point I wish he’d be a little less loquacious.


35 posted on 02/12/2015 1:35:04 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: molson209
How many Children does the Pope have ?

Six that have his name and eight that do not.

36 posted on 02/12/2015 1:35:46 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: rickmichaels

This guy simply needs to shutup anymore. YEESH!!


37 posted on 02/12/2015 1:36:32 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: FR_addict

I’m personally happy when liberals do not reproduce.


38 posted on 02/12/2015 1:48:57 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: iowamark
I never realized the choice my wife and I made to not have children was responsible for the spread of the scourge of islam. Thanks for that keen intellectual insight.

I have been on FR since 2001 and your post ranks among the most moronic I have seen. It saddens me to know there are FReepers so lacking on common sense. Have a nice day.

39 posted on 02/12/2015 1:49:53 PM PST by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: rickmichaels
The Pope should lay off his condemnation.

There are many reasons a couple may choose not to have children. The reasons are not always selfish.

40 posted on 02/12/2015 1:51:22 PM PST by what's up
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