Pope Francis warns aspiring clerics about watching porn admitting priests and nuns often watch porn saying “the devil gets in the way”
• Priests and nuns watch Web porn too, Pope Francis told seminarians in Rome on Monday, the Vatican said Wednesday.
• Warning the aspiring clerics against Web porn, he said it was a “vice” shared by priests and nuns.
• “It is a vice that many people have, many laymen, many laywomen, and also priests and nuns. 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 is a little ‘normal’. Dear brothers, be careful about this”
• Catholic priests and nuns are forbidden from watching pornography, with the Catechism defining sexual imagery as an ‘offence against chastity’ under article 2354.
• In 2020, Pope Francis’ Instagram account appeared to ‘like’ a racy photo of a Brazilian bikini model dressed in stockings and suspenders.
• The model, Natalie Garibotto, said the pontiff’s verified Franciscus account was among the thousands that liked the October 5 image.
• But the account subsequently ‘unliked’ the photo, shortly before the Vatican said it was launching an inquiry.
‘At least I’m going to heaven,’ she joked after the incident drew attention on social media.
The Brazilian model’s management said Garibotto had ‘received the Pope’s official blessing’.
