Question: What is the Catholic Church’s teaching on pornography?
Victor R. Claveau, MJ Answer: From the Catholic perspective, pornography is always gravely immoral. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines it as removing real or simulated sexual acts from the partners’ intimacy in order to display them deliberately to others. It: perverts the intimate self-giving proper to marriage; transforms human persons into objects of […]
The Internet and Pornography
Alvaro de Vicente He will not only be a man who truly knows how to love, but he will develop a great personality because he will be a fuller person. And that, although perhaps uncommon, is only natural. The following essay first appeared as a letter to parents on The Heights website in 2008. It […]
Pornography
A widespread and pernicious though often overlooked evil affecting modern life is pornography. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that: Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate […]
Internet Pornography
Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities. In families, pornography use leads to marital dissatisfaction, infidelity, separation, and divorce. Here are some of the most credible statistics available today on internet pornography.[1] General Pornography […]
Pornography
While pornography is not a new problem, the development of the mass media and recent technological advances have made it much easier to access this deceptive evil. Pornography violates modesty, chastity and truth. Human sexuality involves modesty which protects the privacy of individuals regarding what is most personal and intimate. To invade this privacy, […]
What’s Wrong with a “Little” um… Lust?
(Kenneth Henderson) In the world we live in today, we are bombarded by many strange notions of sexuality — whether it’s pornography on the Internet or TV adds selling shampoo with sex. Lust is so common in our modern world that you are seen as strange or prude if you don’t embrace the laissez faire attitude about […]
What the Catechism Says About Pornography
Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the […]
What is Pornography Doing to Fathers and Their Families?
Steve Wood The venom of Internet Pornography is slowly killing the spiritual life of millions of Christian fathers. At every Catholic men’s conference I have spoken at over the past four years, I have encountered men addicted to Internet pornography. Men from every region of North America, who attend Mass every Sunday, are silently addicted […]
Treating Sexual and Pornographic Addictions
Mark B. Kastelman Sex and porn addictions require therapists with special training in these areas for patients to have a good chance of recovery. These illnesses are very difficult to treat, with relapses the norm. There are no training programs in traditional medical schools, graduate schools of psychology or social work that deal with this […]
Screwtape’s Strategies and PornographyAlias ScrewtapeMy Dear Wormwood:
For your careful review, I have outlined below our strategies for destroying faith and family life. Destroy this secret message immediately after reading it. This classified material comes from the lowest regions. The chief way we attack the family is by neutralizing the protector. Once we neutralize the father, then the children are ours whenever […]