the pope cautioned against obsessively watching the news and listening to music that distracts from one’s work before broaching a more carnal risk.

Pope Francis has warned seminarians in Rome of the dangers of online pornography, calling it a temptation that “weakens the priestly heart”. He discussed reconciling science and faith and trying to live virtuously as one struggles with personal shortcomings.

Priests and nuns watch pornography online just like everybody else, the pope told aspiring clerics of the Roman Catholic Church this week. “It is a vice that many people have, many laymen, many laywomen, and also priests and nuns. The Devil gets in that way,” Francis said

The 86 year-old Jesuit pope has condemned pornography before during his pontificate, most recently in June, when he called it «a permanent attack on the dignity of men and women», saying it should be declared a «threat to public health».

«Dear brothers, be careful of this. The pure heart, the heart that receives Jesus every day, cannot receive this pornographic information,» he said on Monday, telling the audience to «delete it» from cell phones «so you won’t have temptation in your hand». 

 “Each of you think 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,” Francis said.

“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.

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 The 86 year-old Jesuit pope has condemned pornography before during his pontificate, most recently in June, when he called it «a permanent attack on the dignity of men and women», saying it should be declared a «threat to public health».

Francis advised his audience to delete pornographic material from cell phones “so you won’t have temptation in your hand”.