Lust is not a sin according to the Torah, but is it a sin when it comes from the heart? Can a Christian look at another woman with lust? And is pornography a sin if it s a substitute for one s wife?
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00:06:15.400So, Matt, very controversial suggestion.
00:06:19.060You know, Dennis Prager obviously is Jewish and he's talking about lust and obviously our Lord's line about even looking at a woman with lust.
00:06:29.820You've already committed adultery in your heart.
00:06:31.840What did you make of his take on pornography?
00:06:55.700I mean, God kills Onan for the sin of, you know, I'll say self-abuse.
00:07:00.960And lust, you know, whether or not it fits into a specific one of the 613 Jewish laws certainly opens us up to further sin.
00:07:11.240It sounded like Dennis Prager agreed that a marital affair, you know, adultery would be sinful.
00:07:18.100And so I'd want to wonder why he would even open himself up or encourage others or be permitted others opening themselves up to pornography or other lustful behaviors that even if he doesn't consider it a sin would put someone in an occasion of sin, as we might say.
00:07:35.700Indeed so. In fact, the whole thing about pornography is very disturbing anyway, also because of the way porn is manufactured.
00:07:45.360This is not, you know, actresses just showing up at their normal job and this is just...
00:07:49.840But no, we have had umpteen testimonies from inside the porn industry of how abusive it is.
00:07:57.280Most of these women and men, but he's talking here about women, are abused.
00:08:02.480They're usually abused with drugs through pimps or whatever they call themselves in terms of producers or whatever terminology they use.
00:08:10.300But this is a horrific industry of abuse of women and men and it's sickening to support it by viewing this material is very, very harmful, not only to yourself, to all of society.
00:08:25.040You're damning society with this, you know, support of an industry that's so very harmful for people.
00:08:30.880Absolutely. And there's also the psychological effects of people who watch pornography.
00:08:36.580Dennis Prager does something regularly on his show called The Happiness Hour.
00:08:40.540And he's a very thoughtful person, as you can tell. He's very into music.
00:08:43.400He's just a good, generally a good thinker, except on these issues, maybe.
00:08:50.420But and so there's the anxiety and depression.
00:08:53.440And it really is a drug. I mean, I'm sure LifeSite has plenty of stories on this, plenty of psychological studies.
00:08:58.560So even briefly setting aside the theological sinful nature of it, it clearly is harmful.
00:09:05.300And I would ask Dennis Prager, does he think that King David only sinned when he when he committed adultery or when he looked with lust?
00:09:13.600I would say that the he sinned when he looked with lust and at a minimum, as I said earlier, that opened him up those further sins of adultery and murder, actually, too.
00:09:23.680And so, yeah, so I was very disturbed to hear Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson appearing to affirm some of those beliefs.
00:09:31.080That was really concerning as well, because in truth, even though he's Jewish, he should have been taken up as a brother, a child of God anyway, taken up to recognize this harmfulness.
00:09:46.600I know Jordan Peterson knows about the way porn is produced and how horrific it is.
00:09:51.440He also knows these massive psychological effects.
00:09:53.900I mean, as a psychologist, he's talked about it before.
00:09:55.860However, the differences in the brain pathways formed by pornography, how harmful that is, and then how it taints all of your other relationships, not only with your spouse, which it does anyway, but then also with other women.
00:10:11.360So is it very damaging and deleterious thing?
00:10:15.540And it needed someone to call out Dennis Prager in charity and in love.
00:10:20.560This is by no means a slam on Dennis Prager.
00:10:23.100This is hopefully a way of reaching out to him.
00:10:26.560And I would hope that because I'm sure he's surrounded by good Catholics and Christians, because you can't be in this milieu where you're on the right trying to promote, mostly promote, you know, normal human values without being in touch with good people.
00:10:43.260So I would pray that those folks who are close to him would reach out to him with the fullness of truth.
00:10:48.460And they have an opportunity here to evangelize because if Judaism does not answer this properly, it needs to, you know, we need, we have to be able to share this truth.
00:11:01.240And if that's one of the areas where there's a, you know, a possibility to introduce Christ and his values.
00:11:06.680And that's what he's talking about here.
00:11:08.060He's, he's coming at it from that perspective of Jesus about looking at a woman with lust.
00:11:12.820And maybe there's an inroad there to bring these good folks into the fullness of truth, because that's what we always need.
00:11:20.900One of the things that is, at least it's a quote that was from a former porn actress who was in the industry herself and came out and then described what was going on.
00:11:33.700And her words always struck me, it was, you've got to remember, you are watching and therefore abusing someone's daughter, someone's sister, someone's mother.
00:11:47.580If you can put yourself in that mind, if you can see that woman who is here abused in front of the cameras as your own daughter, as your own mother, as your own sister, we've got to be able to do that.
00:12:06.960Because the, the hormones, the takeover, the lust is so powerful.
00:12:11.420When we look at these things, it's impossible and it's, and we don't have to go to it to look at it.
00:12:15.960It shows up for you in, in emails and billboards and whatever else.
00:12:20.760But these are abusive situations, situations that we have to put ourselves in the right frame of mind about.
00:12:45.940So maybe he has a different interpretation or hopefully Jordan Peterson, given his psychological background, could help guide him and perhaps re-examine his own views.
00:12:56.500So let's just continue to pray for Dennis Prager and everyone that might be trapped in, in lust or, or be, be confused.
00:13:07.540We got news of a supposed, for now, Eucharistic miracle in Connecticut.
00:13:14.680And God bless Father for bringing it to light publicly, because often that stays in the background until, you know, years and years and years later.
00:13:22.620But let's have a look at Father's testimony about a Eucharistic miracle.
00:15:36.060And so, but these Eucharistic miracles, you know, are great because, of course, they reinforce our belief, our knowledge that, you know, during transplantation that this, you know, this is the real body and blood of Christ.
00:15:50.800Yeah, it was beautiful that Father, in his bringing out the miracle, gave that teaching again and said, you know, this was great.
00:15:59.600It's, of course, reminiscent of, you know, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes as Jesus did himself.
00:16:05.740And, you know, it's great because, in truth, that's sort of what's going on.
00:16:22.840So, all over the world, every communicant who receives our Lord and blessed Eucharist actually receives our Lord, body, blood, soul, and divinity.
00:16:31.400So, it's very much multiplication all by itself.
00:16:34.160But to be able to exemplify it with a miracle.
00:16:38.740I think in today's day and age, we seem so far gone.
00:16:43.300The spiritual reality seems so removed from us.
00:16:46.200Just, I'm so grateful when we hear of miraculous events because they're needed today, probably more than ever before.
00:16:55.760And it's a great reminder, of course, that God's love never runs out.
00:16:59.760I think it was only a couple weeks ago, at least in the Latin Masses, that they read that gospel reading of the loaves and, I'm sorry, the bread and fishes, which is not a parable about sharing, as some people have said.
00:17:12.560It is, it is, it's an actual miracle that actually, actually happened.
00:17:18.100And as serves as a great reminder, of course, sometimes, unfortunately, in times where a lot of people have lost faith, and in a positive way, that's sometimes when, of course, God works his greatest miracles to help reinvigorate our faith.
00:17:29.680And how great going into Easter to have this possible miracle as a way for us to strengthen our resolve as we wrap up Lent.
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00:18:46.700Last, I want to talk about also this prayer of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
00:18:54.420First of all, give us the prayer if you could, Matt, and then tell us a little bit about it.
00:18:58.360So it goes something, so this is from the Archdiocese of New York's website, the Respect Life Office.
00:19:03.980Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you very much.
00:19:06.020I beg you to spare the life of, and you can either pick a name or just say the unborn baby that I've spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.
00:19:13.340There's a couple different ways you could do this prayer, and you could do it over nine months, so every month representing nine months of pregnancy.
00:19:20.280So if you start it now, you know, you get to Christmas, it'll be the ninth month, or you could do it as a novena.
00:19:26.660And this prayer is basically you're spiritually adopting a baby that is in danger of abortion.
00:19:33.500Should we be so blessed to, you know, achieve eternal salvation, maybe we would get to know, of course, what our works benefited,
00:19:42.160and perhaps get to meet those babies we spiritually adopted.
00:19:47.000And so this is Bishop Fulton Sheen, one of the great, relatively recent Catholic leaders.
00:19:55.960And actually, when I was in grade school, I used to do this.
00:19:57.800My religion teacher was a distant relative of Bishop Fulton Sheen.
00:20:01.000And the church I go to now, they have binders full of all of the spiritually adopted babies that their parish has done, going back years in a little shrine with Mary.
00:20:14.460And so it's just quite beautiful, this dedication to saving babies from abortion, because even if the Supreme Court,
00:20:22.020even though the Supreme Court made a great decision in June, there's still plenty of work to do here,
00:20:25.400and, of course, across the world to end the violence of abortion.
00:21:02.440Some would say, well, is it a form of baptism of desire in the same way of if there was a Protestant who was converting and was, let's say, killed the day before Easter vigil?
00:21:11.900Well, he had the desire to become a baptized—or he had the desire to enter the Catholic Church.
00:21:16.840It's one of those things we don't really—won't really know, I guess, until the end of time.
00:21:24.460We can feel confident that a baby who died—of course, no baby could really die through their own fault—would not suffer.
00:21:32.900And I think we can trust in God that he would take care of the littlest of ones in whatever form that is.
00:21:39.980Now, just so that people understand, limbo is a place of total happiness, but it's not the full union, the beatific vision with God that is experienced by the saints and angels in heaven.
00:21:52.120So there is a very much qualitative difference there.
00:21:56.540And, however, there is an argument, and it's been made quite forcefully.
00:22:01.680It was in discussion in Rome already over a decade ago.
00:22:05.700But it was the comparison of the babies who died in Christ's stead, you might say, when he had to—the Holy Family had to flee to Egypt.
00:22:18.000The decree went out from Herod to kill all the little babies, two years old and under, male babies, and that got executed.
00:22:26.920And so hundreds or maybe more of these little babies were killed.
00:22:33.660On December 28th, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents and regard all those children as saints.
00:22:38.940So the argument has been made that, you know, all these unborn children are, in a very similar way, saints.
00:22:48.620And the move was, the request was, of this group that's pushing forward this cause to have them declared such.
00:22:56.320And one of the—you know, this is, of course, what they—the main argument is, the comparison to these—to the Holy Innocents.
00:23:05.880And they also say, what an army of intercessors that would be for us, both to end the culture of death, but also to help us in our current struggles that we have in the world today.
00:24:07.420A lot of people who have miscarried babies, they're unable to—you know, we've had three ourselves.
00:24:14.160And the intent is there in a huge way.
00:24:19.620All we want to do with our children is give them to our Lord.
00:24:22.360It was our greatest desire to have our babies, baptize them.
00:24:26.560And even should they all have died, you know, the eight living children we have, it would have been our greatest joy to baptize them and give them to the Lord.
00:24:35.600So, you know, that desire is there in spades in terms of the parents wanting to, you know, baptize their children.
00:24:45.960And when they die in utero, early or unable to baptize anyway, you know, there's a lot of hope.
00:24:53.160And a lot of these parents, us included, give names to their unborn children who they lose in utero and encourage their children, living children, to use their intercession.
00:25:05.440And I think that's a beautiful practice.
00:25:08.540But surely our Lord looks after these little ones whom he has called to himself because, you know, in the cases of miscarriage, that's not, you know, anyone's doing but the Lord's.
00:25:23.680And while it's a cross, I think that cross is alleviated and the reality mitigated by the intercession of your little ones who, in my hope anyway, go to the Lord right away.
00:25:40.160Yeah, let's we can we can pray and it doesn't never hurts to pray more.
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