{"id":12099,"date":"2022-01-13T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petdedicated.com\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2022-01-13T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:50:10","slug":"pope-scolds-couples-who-choose-pets-over-kids-it-takes-away-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petdedicated.com\/?p=12099","title":{"rendered":"Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids: &#039;It takes away our humanity&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids: &#8216;It takes away our humanity&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Francis bemoaned the global decline in birthrates.<\/p>\n<h3>Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids<\/h3>\n<p>Pope Francis has not been reluctant to offer his views on polarizing subjects, but Wednesday, he waded into an issue involving two subjects on which consensus is almost impossible to find.<\/p>\n<h3>Pope scolds couples who choose pets over having children<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis bemoaned the global decline in birth rates and was bluntly critical of couples who prefer to have pets rather than children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids: &#8216;It takes away our humanity&#8217; Francis bemoaned the global decline in birthrates. Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids Pope Francis has not been reluctant to offer his views on polarizing subjects, but Wednesday, he waded into an issue involving two subjects on which consensus is almost impossible to find. Pope scolds couples who choose pets over having children Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis bemoaned the global decline in birth rates and was bluntly critical of couples who prefer to have pets rather than children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5,4,7,3],"class_list":["post-12099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-funny-animals","tag-pets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids: &#039;It takes away our humanity&#039; - Pet Dedicated Pet Dedicated<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pet Dedicated, for the companionship, wellbeing and saftey of our pets Pet Dedicated\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/petdedicated.com\/?p=12099\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope scolds couples who choose pets over kids: &#039;It takes away our humanity&#039; 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