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ROME — Pope Francis once again insisted Wednesday people should not substitute pets for children, praising Indonesia for its higher birthrate.
After Indonesia, the 87-year-old pontiff plans to visit Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore. “And this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity,” he added. “And in this way civilization becomes aged and without humanity, because it loses the richness of fatherhood and motherhood.”
At the root of pollution and starvation in the world are not too many children being born, the pope asserted, but rather “the choices of those who think only of themselves, the delirium of an unbridled, blind and rampant materialism, of a consumerism that, like an evil virus, undermines the existence of people and society.”
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