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 Sixth Commandments, sins like self-abuse, pornography, fornication among traditionalists,

they are not any better than the people who go to the

new mass. In fact, there's some estimates by some priests that it's worse than is among the new right 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 lay women, and also priests and nuns, the devil enters from there, the pure heart,

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