Question: Is using pornography a mortal sin, according to the Catholic Church? Answer: Pornography is objectively a grave sin, but due to its addictive nature and other factors, it likely does not constitute a mortal sin in every case. First, I will explain what a mortal sin is. Then, I…
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What are you willing to do to overcome porn?
I’ve been working at Covenant Eyes for almost 20 years, and during that time I’ve talked with thousands of people on their journey away from porn. There have been teens striving to use technology with integrity, young couples shocked to discover the impact of porn on their marriage, and older…
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Ex-Porn Star Tells the Truth About the Porn Industry
Chatsworth, California produces 85% of the world’s adult content. All of the top female talent agencies are located in or within the Chatsworth local radius. Female performers are flown or fly to Chatsworth to work in the adult industry. All of the world’s top male talents live or travel to…
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Books and eBooks
Covenant Eyes Books and eBooks Learn who uses porn and why it’s not merely a personal sexual choice, but a physiological, emotional, and even cultural problem. QUICK LINKS: Porn’s Effects | How to Quit Porn | Family Resources | Support for couples FEATURED RESOURCE The Healing Church What Churches Get…
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Scholarship Winner: A Story of Victory Over Porn
This story is the winner of the 2021 Kenneth Bowen scholarship. Each year Covenant Eyes awards thousands of scholarship dollars to students who demonstrate a desire to live free of porn. Under the Divine Gaze Six years. That is how old I was at my first exposure to pornography. I can…
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Redeeming the Pain: Marnie’s Story
For 20 years, I thought I was the only one: the only woman, especially a supposedly Christian woman, who harbored shameful sexual secrets. I did everything I could to hide them and everything I could to continue in them. I juggled competing realities of an exhausting double life, and I…
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Breaking the Shackles: 2024 Scholarship Finalist
“Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birthto death.” James 1:15 Among young men, pornography is perhaps the most widespread and damaging addiction in the world. Once described by Orthodox priest Spyridon Bailey as the “iconography of the devil,” it…
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4 Ways Porn Kills Great Sex in Marriage
Porn makes promises it can’t keep, especially when it comes to hot sex in marriage. Porn won’t spice up your sex life, and it won’t make you a better lover. Science and psychology show that sharing porn with your spouse or having a secret affair with porn will mess up…
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5 Secrets to Walking in the Spirit
The following is adapted from Your Brain on Porn, a free ebook available from Covenant Eyes. The Bible does not describe us merely as wayward, broken, or needing a moral boost but as those who are dead in sin (Ephesians 2:1). Dead men and women do not just need recovery;…
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Dangerous Men (Book Review)
I wasn’t sure what I was in for when I first picked up a copy of Dangerous Men: Beginning the Process of Lust-Free Living. The book is published with a real rugged feel to it: The pages look nothing like a textbook, but more like the field manual of a…
