"Pornography, electronic media and priestly formation"

Source: Homiletic & Pastoral Review, April 2008, by Sister Marysia Weber, R.S.M., D.O.

Note One:

"No statistics are available to quantify the percentage of priests and seminarians who have accessed Internet pornography.

"However, my experience as a psychiatrist working with seminarians, priests and formation team members suggests that pornography is likely the most frequent misuse of the Internet in seminaries, parishes and rectories.

"I also maintain that seminarians and priests use Internet pornography for the same reasons as the general population: accessibility, affordability and anonymity."

Note Two:

"Ten to 15 percent of priests leave ministry before they celebrate their fifth anniversary."

Wow!

Hey, folks, it's like this:

Are we supposed to believe that in our own Archdiocese of San Antonio, during the time that Archbishop Emeritus Patricio Flores ran amok, that what the good sister is telling us didn't apply here as well?

We say "no?"

Give me a break!