“The pure heart, the one that Jesus receives every day, cannot receive this pornographic information,” the BBC quoted the Pople as remarking.
“Each of you thinks if you’ve had the experience or had the temptation of digital pornography. It’s a vice that so many people have, so many laymen, so many laywomen, and even priests and nuns,” the pontiff said, according to a transcript cited by AlJazeera.
“And I’m not just talking about criminal pornography like child abuse, where you see live cases of abuse – that’s already degeneracy – but of the more ‘normal’ pornography,” he added.
“The devil enters from there. It weakens the priestly heart,” he warned.
The Pope has condemned pornography before. Earlier in June, he called it “a permanent attack on the dignity of men and women”. He had said that it should be declared a “threat to public health”.
