Pope Francis, life coach: At a mass on Monday attended by 15 long-married couples (25 to 60 years), the pope talked a lot about love and Jesus and perseverance and marriage, but he also dropped this warning about ignoring "fruitfulness," according to Vatican Radio:
These marriages, in which the spouses do not want children, in which the spouses want to remain without fertility. This culture of well-being from 10 years ago convinced us: It’s better not to have children! It’s better! You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside, you can be carefree... it might be better — more comfortable — to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog. Is this true or is this not? Have you seen it? Then, in the end this marriage comes to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness. [Pope Francis, via Vatican Radio]
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