Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal rights activists and vegans.
During a weekly general audience at the Vatican last month, the pope, speaking of the afterlife, appeared to suggest that animals could go to heaven
http://callmejorgebergoglio.blogspot.jp/2014/12/all-dogs-go-to-heaven.html
Defintive Biblical Evidence AGAINST Dogs Going to Heaven
http://www.thesacredpage.com/2010/03/defintive-biblical-evidence-against.html
人と他の生物の違い(トマスアキナス他)
Again to escape an accusation of Catholic-Druidism, I’d like to state that the belief that animals have souls dates back to Aristotle, and was maintained with the Scholastic tradition. Moreover, the Vegetative and Sensitive Souls are mortal, they will return to dust, and only the Rational Soul of man is made in the Imago Dei.