Lincoln, Neb., Aug 7, 2013 / 01:06 am
Reflecting on the pornography addiction of a man recently sentenced for the abduction of three women, Bishop James Conley said that the pervasive porn problem is rooted in loneliness and isolation.
On Aug. 1, Ariel Castro was sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison for the abduction, imprisonment and rape of three women for over ten years. He held the women captive in his Ohio home, beating one of them when she was impregnated by him until she miscarried some five times.
"When Castro stood shackled in a Cleveland courtroom, he confessed a common American problem," the bishop of Lincoln, Neb. wrote in an Aug. 6 column at First Things.
"'I believe I am addicted to porn,' he said, 'to the point where I am impulsive, and I just don't realize that what I am doing is wrong.'"