{"id":129523,"date":"2022-10-27T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129523"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:28:07","slug":"even-nuns-watch-porn-pope-says-warning-of-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/27\/even-nuns-watch-porn-pope-says-warning-of-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>(BBC);\u00a0Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it &#8220;weakens the priestly heart&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used, at a session in the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pornography, he said, was &#8220;a vice that so many people have&#8230; even priests and nuns&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The devil enters from there,&#8221; the Pope told priests and seminarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The pure heart, the one that Jesus receives every day, cannot receive this pornographic information,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He advised the group to &#8220;delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church teaching sees pornography as an offence against chastity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror (BBC);\u00a0Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it &#8220;weakens the priestly heart&#8221;. 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 &#8220;a vice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}