Pope tells parents not to let children use computers in their bedrooms because of the ‘dirty content’ on the internet

By: American Decency Staff

Parents should not let children use computers in their bedrooms, the pope has said, while warning of the dangers of internet ‘filth’.

Pope Francis – who has 19million Twitter followers – also revealed he believed computers to be 'bad for the soul' as he launched into a lecture on the dangers of the internet age.

But he praised those parents who were concerned about their children’s exposure to pornographic material on the web, and only allowed the use of computers in common areas. 

Speaking to journalists aboard the papal plane, the Pope said: ‘There is dirty content, pornography, semi-pornography…

'There are parents that are very worried and don’t let their children have computers in their bedroom but in a common place.’ 

That was a good thing, he said.

Francis went on to criticise those who are ‘too attached to their computer’, which he said is 'bad for the soul’ and amounted ‘a psychological illness’.

‘It makes you a slave to your computer,’ he added.

He said that many parents trying to have a family meal felt like children were ‘in another world’ on their smartphones.

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