Francis's “rabbit" comment was widely covered in the media, but fewer reported that he had also said that no outside institution should impose its views about regulating family size on the developing world. “Every people," he insisted, should be able to maintain its identity without being “ideologically colonized."
方济各的“兔子”说被媒体广泛报道，但很少有媒体报道，他还说，外部机构不应该将其关于家庭规模控制的观点施加给发展中世界。“每一个人”，他说，都应该能够保持自己的身份而不被“意识形态殖民”。