Thus The Guardian quoting Pope Francis today. “Pontiff says married couples who decide not to procreate and opt to get a dog or cat instead face the ‘bitterness of loneliness’ late in life,” elaborates the newspaper. At the ripe age of seventy-seven, the pontiff knows what he is talking about, I guess. If he is insisting on procreation, he must be of two minds about his own decision to go childless through life. Instead of opting to get a dog or a cat, he opted for zillions of sheep. On top of loneliness and bitterness of old age, he also gets all the bleating of his untold followers. But I cringe when I think of his poor parents, as well as the parents of so many like him through the ages. Have no popes for children, I would say by way of advice.

To Les U. Knight