{"id":103,"date":"2010-12-06T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lejuene.caritashost.com\/main\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:51:25","slug":"day-2-thu-9-dec-10-pornography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lejuene.caritashost.com\/main\/prayer-for-prolife\/day-2-thu-9-dec-10-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 (Thu 9 Dec 10) – Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"

CCC 2354 Pornography <\/em>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 public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Taken from pornomore.com – http:\/\/www.pornnomore.com\/SecretEpidemic.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Rasavage is one of those professional, suit-and-tie-wearing family men who never misses Mass.<\/p>\n

He raised his children Catholic and his oldest daughter is a Carmelite. As a successful oil refinery engineer, he\u2019s long been a pillar of his small community and the San Joachim and Ann Catholic Church in nearby Alder Grove, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

But Rasavage, 49, has lived with a secret few in his parish know about to this day. In his mid-40s, this seemingly perfect Catholic family man was helplessly addicted to pornography, an addiction, he said, that began in early adolescence.<\/p>\n

“I remain an addict, but I\u2019m no longer indulging my addiction,” Rasavage said. “Anyone who is addicted to pornography will remain addicted for life. It\u2019s an addiction just like drug or alcohol abuse, and it never goes away.”<\/p>\n

Rasavage said he\u2019s far from alone among Catholic men. He said an alarming number of those upstanding pillars of the parish secretly view Internet pornography on a regular basis, which he fears will harm most of their marriages and possibly land them in hell.<\/p>\n

Father Mark Bautista agrees. As pastor of several major parishes during his 11 years as a priest, Father Bautista said he has noticed a staggering increase in porn addiction among Catholic men, women and children.<\/p>\n

Based on confessions he\u2019s heard throughout North America, Father Bautista said it\u2019s safe to assume that up to 30% of men in any given parish are regular viewers of pornography, mostly via the Internet.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Father Bautista said it appears that up to 3% of Catholic women are regular consumers of porn, and he routinely hears porn confessions of girls and boys as young as 13.<\/p>\n

“I began seeing a dramatic increase that seemed to correlate with the growth of the Internet,” said Father Bautista, who recently took over as pastor of San Joachim and Ann Parish and volunteers as spiritual adviser to a porn-addict support group launched recently by Rasavage. “Porn \u2014 which used to be the forbidden fruit of men who were willing to risk being seen walking into an adult bookstore \u2014 is now open to all, and people get caught up in it by accident while they\u2019re surfing the Web.”<\/p>\n