Do priests and nuns watch pornography? Yes, pope admits while condemning the behavior
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, condemned digital pornography while speaking at the Vatican about social media use.
The pope spoke to and answered questions from a group of seminarians and priests studying in Rome, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the full text of the event published on Vatican City’s website.
Pornography, the pope said, “is a vice that has so many people, so many lay people, so many lay women and also priests and nuns,” according to a translation by Sky News.
“I tell you, (pornography) is something that weakens the soul,” the pope warned, according to Sky News. “It weakens the soul. The devil enters from there: he weakens the priestly heart.” “Delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand,” he said, according to BBC.
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Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, condemned digital pornography while speaking at the Vatican about social media use.
The pope spoke to and answered questions from a group of seminarians and priests studying in Rome, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the full text of the event published on Vatican City’s website.
Pornography, the pope said, “is a vice that has so many people, so many lay people, so many lay women and also priests and nuns,” according to a translation by Sky News.
“I tell you, (pornography) is something that weakens the soul,” the pope warned, according to Sky News. “It weakens the soul. The devil enters from there: he weakens the priestly heart.” “Delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand,” he said, according to BBC.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"