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It's always good if a person genuinely loves the traditional elements of the Catholic faith.

But for some people their religiosity is a mask hiding a sinful addiction and ignoring this problem doesn't help anyone, and that problem is pornography.

Now to be clear, I am not saying that anyone who loves Catholic tradition is secretly addicted to porn.

That's obviously false.

I'm also not saying that pornography is only a problem among traditional Catholics or pious Christians.

That's false.

It's a universal problem.

In fact, the universal nature of the problem is why we cannot say, Oh, this isn't an issue for my family, or those families, or this traditional parish community.

Here's a clip from Father Ripperger on this issue.

If you look at the number of sins against the six commandments, sins like self-abuse, pornography, fornication, among traditionalists, they are not any better than the people who go to the, to the new mass.

In fact, there's some estimates by some priests that it's worse than it is among the new rite people.

This is a serious problem.

Father Ripperger and other traditional priests have said that some Catholics who are addicted to porn will try to overcompensate for their addiction by portraying themselves with an extra religious exterior to try to balance out the shame of their interior sins.

In a 2022 address, Pope Francis noted the scope of this problem among Catholics saying, It is a vice that has so many people, so many laymen, so many laywomen, and also priests and nuns.

The devil enters from there.

The pure heart, the heart that receives Jesus every day, cannot receive this pornographic information that today is so commonplace, and if from your cellphone you can delete this, delete it, so you won't have temptation in your hand.