Pope reveals that even priests and nuns watch porn, tells them to stop it

On October 24, 2022, Pope Francis — during a seminary in the Vatican — admitted that even Catholic priests and nuns have been discovered to consume porn , and subsequently recommended that they halt such acts immediately. The leader of the Catholic Church had been answering a question relating to the use of the Internet and social media by spiritual leaders in the current age when he broached the subject of online pornography — describing it as a “vice so many people have”, and extended the misuse of it to some priests and nuns in the clergy. He said that porn “weakens the priestly heart”, and added that it’s one way the Devil uses to corrupt a person.

“The Devil gets in that way. And I’m not just talking about criminal pornography like that involving the abuse of children — that is already degeneration — but pornography that is a little ‘normal’,” he said. “Dear brothers, be careful about this.

The pure heart, the one that Jesus receives every day, cannot receive this pornographic information. ” His immediate advice for priests and nuns partaking of porn was to “delete this from your phones, so you will not have temptation in hand”. Even despite his latest warning on the matter, the issue of consuming sexually immoral content or getting involved in immoral activity within the Catholic Church isn’t exactly something completely new.

While Catholic priests and nuns have traditionally taken clerical vows of celibacy for centuries, many have questioned just how pure these individuals have managed to remain during their tenures as spiritual servants of the church. Curiosities were stoked in 2020 when the Pope’s official Instagram account was caught liking a suggestive photo of Brazilian glamor model Natalia Garibotto, which ended up causing the model’s account to gain 600,000 new followers shortly after. The Vatican had also launched an investigation into how such a thing was allowed to happen, although many have attributed it to a slip of the thumb by an admin in charge of the account.

This discussion by the Pope about pornography also isn’t the first time he’s publicly commented on sexual issues. For instance, he has reminded younger listeners to abstain from premarital sex (although he also claimed that it wasn’t “the most serious sin”), and has also taken a firm stance against abortion, likening it to the act of ” hiring a hitman “. However, this new salvo against Roman Catholic church leaders consuming porn may be more relevant considering the recurring exposés of numerous sexual abuse cases within the clergy , where thousands of priests and clergymen have been accused by reporters of involving themselves in child sexual abuse and similar activities over several decades.

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