Pope Francis has admitted that even Catholic nuns and priests watch pornography.
He says that watching online porn is also a vice of priests and nuns.
Pope Francis warned seminarians that the vice of digital pornography “weakens the priestly heart.”
Speaking during a meeting with hundreds of seminarians in Rome, the Pope underlined the importance for seminarians and priests to be very careful about the “temptation of digital pornography” because “it weakens the soul.”
“Dear brothers, be careful of this. The pure heart, the heart that receives Jesus every day, cannot receive this pornographic information,” Pope Francis said .
“And if from your cell phone you can delete this, delete it, so you won’t have temptation at hand.
“And if you can’t delete it, protect yourself properly so you don’t have access to this. I tell you, it weakens the soul.”
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The Pope explained that he brought up the problem of pornography because “it is a vice that so many people have — so many lay men, so many lay women, and even priests and religious sisters.”
He added that he was not just talking about “criminal pornography, like child abuse,” but what some people might call “‘normal’ pornography.”
“The devil enters from there. It weakens the priestly heart,” the pope repeated.
Pope Francis was responding to 10 questions from seminarians during the meeting.