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Pornography has become more prevalent than ever. Oversexualization in entertainment has become the new norm and our devices have given us constant availability and accessibility to anything we could ever want at the push of a button. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote a formal statement to express the Catholic church’s stance on pornography entitled “Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography.” In the publication, it states, “The use of pornography by anyone in the home deprives the home of its role as a safe haven and has negative effects throughout a family’s life and across generations.”

On the Second Sunday of Lent, March 7th and 8th of 2020, we, as a Diocese, will begin implementing an anti-pornography campaign entitled “Safe Haven Sunday.” We invite parishes and all people, Catholic and non-Catholic, within the Diocese to help raise awareness of the dangers of pornography and provide families with these tangible resources for making homes a “safe haven.”

Resources:

https://cleanheart.online/diocese-baton-rouge-0

• This site provides excellent resources for the groups listed above.
• For example, Click the “Educators” tab and see the Digital Citizenship. This links to Protect Young Eyes site showing a list of various digital devices and how to set up controls, filters, etc. Very practical.