“The Lord wants everyone to be fruitful like Him, giving ourselves to others and giving life. Children-free countries, which live in demographic winter, have a bad disease.” Said Pope Francis in his morning homily of 19 December 2017, at Casa Santa Marta, during which he invites us not to keep our hearts closed like “an object from a museum.”
Francis: choosing not to have children a “bad disease”
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