Diocese of Superior launches Safe Haven Sunday

From The Superior Catholic Herald...
 

On the first weekend of Lent, Feb. 17-18, priests across the Diocese of Superior are tasked with preaching about the pervasiveness and harmful effects of pornography. The diocese’s primary aim is to alert parents to the necessity of discussing the dangers with their children, beginning at grade-school level, and monitoring their use of technology.

Loree Nauertz, associate director of the Office of Evangelization & Missionary Discipleship, said Safe Haven Sunday – an initiative created by the Catholic Christian filtering service Covenant Eyes – is a response to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops document entitled, “Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography.”

Nauertz said the diocese’s vision is make parents aware that the $8 billion porn industry targets 8-year-olds. There are 43 million pornographic sites online; exposure used to mean that children saw an explicit photo or magazine. Now, they might encounter videos with violence, verbal and physical abuse and deviant behaviors that could negatively impact their health – emotionally, mentally and sexually – for years to come.

Mother of six boys ages 12 to 24, Nauertz knows the difficulty of confronting the issue.

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