My Pug vs. The Pope

S.J. Elliott
6 min readJan 7, 2022

The absurdity of labeling people without children as selfish

Photo by Nikita Kachanovsky on Unsplash

Earlier this week, Pope Francis made a statement that people who don’t want to have children are selfish.

During a discussion on parenthood with a general audience, he said that the practice of having one child or choosing to have no children was;

“a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, [it] takes…

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S.J. Elliott

Aspiring story-teller. Ordained coffee connoisseur. I write about processing personal trauma, & my quest to be a better version of myself as a human/woman/wife.