Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns off watching porn. He said that porn “weakens the priestly heart.”
According to the BBC:
The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used, at a session in the Vatican.
Pornography, he said, was “a vice that so many people have… even priests and nuns”.
“The devil enters from there,” the Pope told priests and seminarians.
As to how to navigate social media and the digital world, he said that they should be used but told them not to waste too much time on it.
“The pure heart, the one that Jesus receives every day, cannot receive this pornographic information,” he said.
He advised the group to “delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand”.
Church teaching sees pornography as an offence against chastity.
Historically, priests and nuns have done far worse than watch porn.
The Vatican should lift the ban on celibacy and allow priests and nuns to take partners if they choose.
It all goes back to Paul.
In I Corinthians 7:7–8; 32–35 Paul wrote: “But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.
Paul wasn’t very fond of women though.
In 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, he expressly forbade women from speaking in church and demanded they submit to their husbands: “…women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.”
Not bad for an agnostic, eh?
