VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis warned seminarians in Rome of the dangers of online pornography, in a transcript published by the Vatican on Wednesday, calling soft porn a temptation that “weakens the heart of the priest”. .
“Dear brothers, beware of this. A pure heart, a heart that receives Jesus every day, cannot receive this obscene information,” he told the audience on Monday to “delete it” from cellphones. “So that there is no temptation in your hand”.
“Satan enters from there: it weakens the heart of the priest. Sorry to go into these details about pornography, but there is a truth: a truth that touches priests, seminarians, nuns, holy souls. ,” he said.
At Francis’ meeting at the Vatican on Monday, the 86-year-old pope asked priests and seminarians studying in Rome a wide range of questions, from reconciling science and faith to trying to live virtuously amid personal shortcomings. Answered.
However, when asked how best to use digital and social media to “share the joy of being a Christian,” the pope pointed to obsessive watching of the news, a distraction from one’s work. Warned against listening to music.
“And there’s another thing on that (topic), which you know very well: digital pornography,” he said, according to a transcript of the question-and-answer session.
