RPT: Pope Urges Families to Have Fewer Kids if 'You Cannot Bring Them Up Properly'

(FOX NEWS) According to a panelist at a Vatican-run workshop, Pope Francis is urging people to have fewer children if they cannot bring them up properly.

On Thursday, botanist and environmentalist Peter Raven, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, made the comments at a press conference concluding the Vatican's Biological Extinction workshop, LifeSiteNews reported.

Raven was a panelist for a discussion on how to save the natural world.

"We need a more limited number of people in the world," said Raven about a solution to the issue of overpopulation.