Pope: Pets or children? Francis is barking up the wrong tree

Children versus pets, which is better? No, it’s not a madcap challenge for Harry Hill’s TV Burp. It is in fact the latest moral dilemma (or guilt trip) laid before us by the Pope. Unsurprisingly, he’s rooting for the kids, and goes so far as to say choosing to go without “is selfish and diminishes us”, while warning dogs and cats are taking “the place of children”.

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