<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654895537630,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654895537630,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54572986", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1026860"} }); ","_id":"00000181-4f46-d590-a5f1-cff7c5330000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedPope Francis called pornography and surrogacy threats to human dignity on Friday while discussing challenges facing families around the world.
“We also talk about the scourge of pornography, which is now spread everywhere via the web,” the pope said from the Vatican, according to a report.
“It should be denounced as a permanent attack on the dignity of men and women. It is not only a matter of protecting children — an urgent task of the authorities and all of us — but also of declaring pornography a threat to public health.”
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Quoting a speech he delivered to a congress on child dignity in 2017, the pope expounded on the threat of pornography.
“It would be a serious illusion to think that a society in which abnormal consumption of sex on the web is rampant among adults is then capable of effectively protecting minors,” the pope said.
To combat the threat of pornography, it is up to schools, communities, and networks to help individuals who are addicted, according to the pope.
Surrogacy is another threat to human dignity, Pope Francis said.
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He said, “The dignity of men and women is also threatened by the inhumane and increasingly widespread practice of ‘womb renting,’ in which women, almost always poor, are exploited, and children are treated as commodities.”
