Kansas City, Mo., Oct 20, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Recent statistics show that the amount of money spent annually in the U.S. pornography industry is greater than all of the money spent on Major League baseball for a year combined. Worldwide, the industry brings in over $57 billion dollars.
Startlingly, this makes pornography one of the largest and post powerful industries in the world--a fact that the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has decided to fight head on.
“I think we’re naïve”, said Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann, “if we don’t think that all of us are vulnerable to . . . [what] the culture is communicating, and very powerfully communicating, through modern instruments of communication.”
For this reason, the Archdiocese has launched “As for me and my house”, a unique, anti-pornography program which will be implemented on a pilot bases in a number of parishes throughout the area.