Don't have kids? Pope says you'll die bitter & alone

Cabaal

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/06/03/frans-pet-hate/

Pope Francis said that staying childless will ultimately bring married couples nothing but “the bitterness of loneliness”.

The Pope also counselled childless couples to be fruitful and multiply, and not spend time raising pets when they could be raising children. He said that while a childless life offers better vacation opportunities, it will end in solitude:

This culture of well-being from ten 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 care-free… 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. It is not fruitful, it does not do what Jesus does with his Church: He makes His Church fruitful.

Maybe Eamon Casey and Michael Cleary had the right idea after all…?

So if you can't actually have kids you are still going against what Jesus wants of you? Is it Jesus will that you die bitter and alone?

Also what about the majority of unmarried mothers? Are they being too fruitful? :P

Pherekydes

Frankie, Frankie! With all your erudition you don't understand irony!

Childless pope preaches to childless couples shocker!

kylith

My aunt has no kids and she's not bitter and alone, she's much too busy jetting off to Frihiliana with all her mates whose children never visit them.

sbsquarepants

Pherekydes wrote: »

Childless pope preaches to childless couples shocker!

Don't go making crazy assumptions.
He could have more kids than the average ballymun mickey money enthusiast for all you know!

shruikan2553

Won't god keep them company? What about single parents? When we bring in same sex marriage can they collect a child on the way out?

smacl

Looking at world population trends, short of a world war or major pandemic, there's not much chance of anyone dying alone. Some of the WOA!! stuff makes for interesting reading. What was sensible in terms of family planning in biblical times is not so today.

eviltwin

This is the same guy who tells couples who want to use ivf or surrogacy that they are bad people who are going to hell. :rolleyes:

eyescreamcone

eviltwin wrote: »

This is the same guy who tells couples who want to use ivf or surrogacy that they are bad people who are going to hell. :rolleyes:

Thank god for IVF

therealme

Does that apply to him too?????

DaisyD2

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So if you can't actually have kids you are still going against what Jesus wants of you? Is it Jesus will that you die bitter and alone?? :P[/quote]

Yeah, cos Jesus was so busy in his 33yrs living with his Mother to go off, get married - in a Church - & get busy multipying. Worked well for him

Turtwig

Reading between the lines:

Pope regrets the fact that he never was a parent. (He's a bit bitter over it now too!)

robindch

Turtwig wrote: »

Pope regrets the fact that he never was a parent. (He's a bit bitter over it now too!)

Much my reading of it too.

I'd watch out around those long stairs in the Vatican if I were the pope's cat.

Dades

Cabaal wrote: »

So if you can't actually have kids you are still going against what Jesus wants of you? Is it Jesus will that you die bitter and alone?

If you can't have kids it's part of God's plan.

His plan for you have your dream car, a low handicap and holiday in places like Angkor Wat and Cancun, instead of Kelly's of Rosslare.

Bannasidhe

Dades wrote: »

If you can't have kids it's part of God's plan.

His plan for you have your dream car, a low handicap and holiday in places like Angkor Wat and Cancun, instead of Kelly's of Rosslare.

God's plan for my atheist great grand uncle was to join the RAF in 1936, train as a medic, fight through WWII (learning Arabic and German on the way), participate in a hilarious plan to invade Turkey that was sadly shelved due to being stupid even by military standards, organise the destruction of Luftwaffe airfields in the Hamburg region, pass the exams to become a dental student but decline due to marriage to a ex Ministry of Info clerical worker so became a lumberjack in Canada instead. Suck at lumberjacking so become a heater sales man instead. Suck at that so apply for a job with BOAC as a steward. Eventually become chief steward on Concorde based in Manhattan where wife works on 5th Avenue. Retire in 1984 to build house in West Cork on land bought for thruppence ha'penny in the 50s (bought in east and north Cork too as God couldn't decide) where both still reside and amuse themselves by building interesting found object sculptures in their garden in between visits from nieces, grand-nieces, great-grand nephews and on occasion great-great-grand niece and nephew.

God is such a b*stard.

robindch

Bannasidhe wrote: »

[...] Suck at lumberjacking [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg

Gordon

Pope in scare tactic recruitment drive shocker.

Delirium

"weeeeeeeeeee!!!! Look at my birdy!!!!"



"..... I mean, pets are bad!!"

legspin

Dades wrote: »

If you can't have kids it's part of God's plan.

His plan for you have your dream car, a low handicap and holiday in places like Angkor Wat and Cancun, instead of Kelly's of Rosslare.

Ah Dades, you're setting the bar awfully high there. Some of us can only aspire to such luxury.

Bannasidhe

legspin wrote: »

Ah Dades, you're setting the bar awfully high there. Some of us can only aspire to such luxury.

Meh.

Got the most painful ear infection thanks to their pool back at the end of the last century and never returned.

Nice cakes tho....

robindch

SW wrote: »

"weeeeeeeeeee!!!! Look at my birdy!!!!"

I just thought of the most dreadful joke involving that photo of the pope and birds and fingers, but this post is too polite to contain it.

Hotblack Desiato

Is he sitting on the can?

Bannasidhe

robindch wrote: »

I just thought of the most dreadful joke involving that photo of the pope and birds and fingers, but this post is too polite to contain it.

PM me

magicbastarder

he picked a great week to say this from an irish point of view. have kids! they'll be loved and cherished, and their bodies used to make compost!

Dades

legspin wrote: »

Ah Dades, you're setting the bar awfully high there. Some of us can only aspire to such luxury.

You're right. I stayed in the Ferrycarrig a few years back as Kelly's was charging Monaco prices. :P

eyescreamcone

Francis is referring to Joseph Ratzinger I think ;-)

Brian Shanahan

Cabaal wrote: »

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/06/03/frans-pet-hate/







So if you can't actually have kids you are still going against what Jesus wants of you? Is it Jesus will that you die bitter and alone?

Also what about the majority of unmarried mothers? Are they being too fruitful? :P

Of course this is the seniormost sect of a cult, one of who's earliest known strictures was that followers not engage in any sexual activity at all, because as any fule then new, armageddon was just waiting around the next corner waiting to get you dead.

Christianity, please make up your mind over what rules you want us following, so as I can know what forbidden acts will stay forbidden.

Brian Shanahan

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Of course this is the seniormost sect of a cult, one of who's earliest known strictures was that followers not engage in any sexual activity at all, because as any fule then new, armageddon was just waiting around the next corner waiting to get you dead.

Christianity, please make up your mind over what rules you want us following, so as I can know what forbidden acts will stay forbidden.

No, we've always been at war with eurasia

Cabaal

bluewolf wrote: »

No, we've always been at war with eurasia

Did you hear?
The chocolate rations have been increased!

Brian Shanahan

Cabaal wrote: »

Did you hear?
The chocolate rations have been increased!

I love BB!

Hotblack Desiato

Victory Gins all round!

Brian Shanahan

ninja900 wrote: »

Victory Gins all round!

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.

Calibos

Bannasidhe wrote: »

God's plan for my atheist great grand uncle was to join the RAF in 1936, train as a medic, fight through WWII (learning Arabic and German on the way), participate in a hilarious plan to invade Turkey that was sadly shelved due to being stupid even by military standards, organise the destruction of Luftwaffe airfields in the Hamburg region, pass the exams to become a dental student but decline due to marriage to a ex Ministry of Info clerical worker so became a lumberjack in Canada instead. Suck at lumberjacking so become a heater sales man instead. Suck at that so apply for a job with BOAC as a steward. Eventually become chief steward on Concorde based in Manhattan where wife works on 5th Avenue. Retire in 1984 to build house in West Cork on land bought for thruppence ha'penny in the 50s (bought in east and north Cork too as God couldn't decide) where both still reside and amuse themselves by building interesting found object sculptures in their garden in between visits from nieces, grand-nieces, great-grand nephews and on occasion great-great-grand niece and nephew.

God is such a b*stard.

Such an eventful varied life! His surname wasn't Mitty was it?

Bannasidhe

Calibos wrote: »

Such an eventful varied life! His surname wasn't Mitty was it?

Those are only some of the highlights.

He had, and is still having, an amazing life.