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A Way Out of Porn Compulsion

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Ryan Foley is an entrepreneur at heart. Now retired from the U.S. Air Force, the tall husband and father runs ePriest.com and vocation.com and is engaged full-time in strengthening the Church’s teaching on the dignity of the human person and promoting the Catholic sexual ethic. 

A major threat to this teaching (and to the peace of soul that comes from following it) is pornography. Porn has spread like a virus throughout our culture and has degraded cultural sensibilities in TV sitcoms, movies, billboard campaigns, and magazines at the grocery store checkout stand.

The most virulent (read hardcore) strains of the virus are found, of course, on the Internet.

I spoke this week with Mr. Foley on Catholic Answers Focus (catholic.com/focus) about a hugely popular and verifiably effective solution to Internet pornography. It’s called Covenant Eyes, of which Ryan Foley is vice president for business development. I’ve mentioned Covenant Eyes on Catholic Answers Live, and every device in our home has the software.

As you’ll hear from the interview, there still exists widespread denial among parents about the nature and frequency of the hardcore porn their chilldren are seeing and the young age of their first exposure to it. Click here to get a free 60-day (twice as long as the usual 30-day trial period) chance to test drive Covenant Eyes:

https://covenanteyes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=697&url=896

That offer is good until December 31, 2015. As Ryan explains on the podcast, it’s not just an image blocker; it provides accountability in which adults are treated like adults. Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.” The implicit collorary is, “Cursed are the impure of heart, for they shall not see God.” As far as the evangelical counsels go, poverty (thanks in part to the mission of Pope Francis) is making a comeback.

Too bad chastity and obedience are still lagging behind. We eschew both at our peril.

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    The Holy Rosary completely freed me from porn etc as it took me 2.5-3months of praying The Holy Rosary every single day before internal change took place from within me. without that happening, which i consider a miracle (it’s clear proof to me that prayer really works), it would have been impossible to escape the allure of porn.

    my story is here… http://goo.gl/kUen4y

    i still continue to pray The Holy Rosary every single day and have been for over 2 years now as it’s been nearly 2 years and 1 month since i been completely free of porn addiction as i have not have a single slip up and all credit goes to God (and i thank Mary to for her intercession).

    i think that’s one thing many of us Catholics (and Christian’s in general) neglect is lack of regular prayer, more specifically The Holy Rosary (which is the highest form of prayer outside of the Mass to my knowledge), when that’s critical to grow closer to God and helps to avoid sin and resist/endure temptation when it comes.

    my only problem now is that i still have not got the courage to go to confession yet so i cannot receive communion at Mass since what i did is potentially a mortal sin.

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