Priests and nuns watch porn – Pope – RT World News
Pontiff warned future clergymen against succumbing to ‘soul-weakening’ sin
Watching pornography online is a widespread phenomenonviceto which even nuns and priests are no strangers, Pope Francis said earlier this week.
Addressing the seminarians, the 85-year-old pontiff called on each of the aspiring clerics to reflect on whether they « have had an experience or had the temptation to watch pornography in the digital world.”
« It’s a vice that so many people have, so many lay people, so many lay women, and also priests and nuns. » says the Pope.
He emphasized that he wasn’t just talking about « criminal pornography« , depicting, for example, child abuse, but also on what is called « Ordinary” porn. Emphasizing that such images « weaken the soul », the head of the Roman Catholic Church has called on anyone who can remove it from phones to do so.
« The pure in heart, the one Jesus receives every day, cannot receive this pornographic information », said Pope Francis.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, anyone involved in the production or viewing of pornography is committing a « grave breach ». pornography »offends chastity because it perverts the marital act, the intimate gift of the spouses to each other,explains the church’s doctrinal document.
Meanwhile, the Pope’s Instagram page, which is run by the Holy See team, made headlines in 2020 after he « liked » a racy photo of bikini model Natalia Garibotto. The « like », although removed the next day, was appreciated by the model. « My mom may hate my ass pics, but pope double-tap, » she said in an interview at the time.
The Catholic News Agency, citing sources close to the Vatican press, later reported that the pope’s team had launched an internal investigation to determine how the « like » happened.
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