a few words from Pope Francisco The use of digital pornography by nuns and priests provoked a wave of memes on social networks and critics conservatives and progressives. “Pornography is a defect in many people, many laymen, laity women, even priests and nuns,” said the Argentinean Pontiff. “The devil enters from therecontinued.
The Pope spoke this way on Wednesday during a long speech given to the Pope. seminaries and priests people living in Rome. It was before a question about how to use new technologies and digital media Francis decided to address an issue that is rarely dealt with in the Catholic Church. “Let everyone consider whether they have the experience or the lure of digital pornography,” the Pope asked. The problem is that “andthat pure heartthat Jesus took every day, You cannot receive this pornographic information”, he reasoned. “Dear brothers, be careful”added.
“And I’m not talking crime pornography for example, child abuse with live cases of abuse: it’s already a degenerationBut pornography is a bit normal”Announced. And he urged religious people to delete that content if they had pornography on their phones. “Do not tempt in your hand,” he warned.
network reactions
The result of this has been dozens of responses In social networks such as Twitter, where many internet users traditionally ridicule the use of pornography by priests, they must be single. For example, one user wrote “(Francisco) discovered hot water”. Francis”shocked believersHe came to write for himself ‘Libero’, an Italian right-wing newspaper.
Others view the issue as hiding more serious facts. “This warning from above, trivialize and mock “What is drama to many,” said sociologist Marco Marzano of the University of Bergamo, adding that it was an “anachronistic” approach. celibacy.
the Crusades
Even the famous adult film actor Rocco Siffredi wanted to speak his mind. “The Pope is right. sex is a great temptation. I have many admirers in the church,” he said, but in an interview with the press in his country said that he also believed that “crusades” were not necessary.
But in reality it is not the first time the Pope has spoken on the subject. For example, in 2017 Francisco harshly criticized ‘sex messaging’ (the sending of sexually explicit images from mobile phones). “Extremely dangerous phenomena such as ‘the spread of increasingly extreme pornographic images’ are spreading across the network,” he said.
He is not the first pope to address the issue. Already in 1989, John Paul II condemns “trouble” of pornography on television and in the media violence. He came to say this at a public meeting where he also discussed infidelity between husband and wife.