Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, recently spoke to nearly 800 priests at a sexual abuse prevention conference in New York where he urged them to protect themselves from temptation in order to maintain their moral integrity.
Warren’s advice came earlier this month at the Archdiocese of New York’s biennial Safe Environment Convocation at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers.
The Archdiocese’s “Safe Environment Program” is designed to prevent and respond to any incidents of child sexual abuse from children entrusted in the care of Catholic institutions.
“Brothers, what we do matters more than what anybody else does in the world,” Warren said, according to Catholic New York. “That’s because the only thing that’s going to last on the planet is the Church of Jesus Christ.”
Citing 1 John 2:15–17, Warren told the priests that Satan recycles old temptations which the Bible groups into three categories: passions, possessions and positions.
“Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,…
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