Frequent porn use impotentifies you, both literally and metaphorically.

I fear for my young men, who have the devils swarming them in a way I did not only 20 years ago, in my own not overly-clean or righteous generation. Like the scholar John Reilly observed, within living memory students would read things in classical texts that literally would have never otherwise occurred to them. Those days are over. The moral milieu of late antiquity, where the jaws of hell gaped so wide that even Christ was impelled in, are back with us.

My young men, my brothers in the priesthood, me, we are being forced to be heroes. Some will fail, though I pray God not. Some who fail may not fail forever.


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