2012 Prayer Intentions - 2. Prayers for Pink Cross

My Monday prayer this year is for an organization run by a remarkable woman I've become acquainted with through Facebook named Shelley Lubben. She is a former pornographic actress who had a powerful conversion experience and now ministers to men and women in the "adult film" industry by sharing the Gospel with them through her Pink Cross Foundation.

Not only does pornography damage marriages and distort the sexuality of those who view it, it also destroys the lives of those who work in the industry, through disease, substance abuse, psychological trauma, and suicide. The performers are abused, exploited, sometimes even the victims of sex trafficking, all on top of the grave spiritual danger they and the producers and consumers place themselves in by engaging in a mortally sinful activity. It is truly a "social justice" issue, encompassing all manner of issues ranging from properly ordered human sexuality to economics to immigration.

In telling her own story, and in helping to expose the reality of the pornography industry, Mrs. Lubben has been subject to all manner of spiritual attacks. It is my hope that my prayers, united with those of the martyr St. Maria Goretti, will strengthen the Pink Cross in their mission to lead people out of the life of pornography and into faith in Christ.