Pornography

Fr. James Jackson pleads guilty to child porn charge

06/08/2023 at 5:16 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Michelle La Rosa, The Pillar. June 8, 2023 Fr. James Jackson, a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a felony count of receiving child pornography. Jackson, who was set to begin trial June 20, accepted a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed to... read more

Pope Francis Is Right: Pornography Consumption Opens a Gate to the Demonic

12/03/2022 at 4:30 PM By Kevin Edward White

COMMENTARY: Father Hermann Backhaus’ promotion of pornography consumption as something benign is refuted by Scripture, Tradition, the magisterium, scholars and exorcists. By Jane Adolphe, National Catholic Fegister, December 3, 2022 In October 2022, during his meeting with seminarians and... read more

Moral Kombat
Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents

08/15/2022 at 3:41 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Allan C. Carlson, Touchstone, September-October For the uninitiated, Mortal Kombat—with a t and a K—is the most successful fighting game franchise in video-gaming history. Launched in 1991, eleven versions have sold 75 million units. Three successful feature films have also... read more

Northeast Ohio priest sentenced to life in prison for sexually exploiting boys, collecting large cache of child pornography

11/09/2021 at 10:01 PM By Kevin Edward White

By John Caniglia, cleveland.com, November 9, 2021 AKRON, Ohio – A Catholic priest was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for sexually exploiting boys, some of whom he extorted with details he gained from taking their confessions. U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi said the public needed to be... read more

FSSP Priest Faces New Federal Child Pornography Charges

11/05/2021 at 9:53 AM By Kevin Edward White

Father Jackson has not made any public comment about the charges against him. By Joe Bukuras/CNA, National Catholic Register, November 5, 2021PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Federal authorities have filed additional child pornography charges against Father James W. Jackson, who was arrested Oct. 30 after... read more

Catholic Colleges Should Fight Pornography

10/17/2020 at 4:40 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

For young people at home and in campus residences, the temptation to view online pornography has probably never been higher. In response to a student petition, The Catholic University of America began blocking nearly 200 porn websites in 2019. Patrick Reilly Blog, October 13, 2020 To... read more

Stigmatizing and Prosecuting Pornography

09/15/2019 at 2:30 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

by Gerard V. Bradley, September 08, 2019 Unless adults are willing to make dramatic changes to their own moral and legal rules about pornography, we shall keep playing what amounts to game of Russian roulette with the formation of our children when it comes to one of the most precious parts... read more

New Anti-Porn Program Connects Men With Hope, Plan to Kick Addiction

09/03/2019 at 10:39 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Program throws a lifeline to the pornography-obsessed. By Judy Roberts, September 2, 2019 Like many men addicted to pornography, Max had tried willpower and prayer to stop. It worked pretty well as long as the 19-year-old was living with other faithful Catholics. But when he returned home... read more

Laxity in Seminaries as a Contributing Cause to the Sex-Abuse Crisis

07/10/2019 at 10:53 PM By Kevin Edward White

By Janet E. Smith, National Catholic Register, July 10, 2019 “Hide the handsome ones.” That was what was “jokingly” said when Theodore McCarrick would visit seminaries. It disgusts me that such “jokes” — which clearly portrayed a reality — did not lead to a thorough investigation... read more

Don’t let the culture raise your kids

06/12/2019 at 4:26 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Advice for parents in a family-unfriendly culture By Marcia Segelstein and Mary Cooney | Jun 11 2019 | “It takes a village to raise a child” — so goes the African proverb. But what if that village, including schools, peers, media, and the culture at large, goes strongly and... read more

Alumnus accuses former Notre Dame head of whittling down school’s Catholic identity

06/09/2019 at 2:54 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

By Martin M. Barillas WASHINGTON, D.C. June 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Fr. Ted Hesburgh, who led Notre Dame University for 35 years, spent that time “bartering away” the university’s Catholic identity in exchange for academic prestige, according to one reviewer of Hesburgh’s recently... read more

Look at this

04/26/2019 at 4:59 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Students Lead Anti-Pornography Initiatives at Catholic Colleges

04/15/2019 at 3:24 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse’

04/11/2019 at 9:03 AM By Kevin Edward White

Cover Columbus! Show Porn!

01/24/2019 at 6:12 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Notre Dame, Pornography Middleman

12/13/2018 at 4:10 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Fathers, sons, and the sexual revolution we really need

11/05/2018 at 8:44 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

A Synod also on Vocational Discernment

10/18/2018 at 2:52 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Something More Than a “Crisis”

10/04/2018 at 3:32 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

NY Archdiocese Shake-Up After AG Launches Criminal Probe

09/18/2018 at 2:37 PM By Mary Anne Hackett