The Catholic Church is very reluctantly accepting condom use:
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan in April said the pope had asked the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care and other scientists and theologians to study condom use as a means of HIV prevention, and the Vatican expects to release a document on the subject. Although some Catholic clergy have suggested that the use of condoms to curb HIV transmission would be the “lesser of two evils” . . .
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This is very misleading header, and so in the interests of journalistic integrity, I should invite you to modify it.
It is a falsehood to attempt to attribute to Pope Benedict, or any other Pope the statement that ‘Condoms are the lesser of two evils’.
It is part of the Church’s moral teaching that the use of prophylactics in sexual intercourse is always evil whether contraception or disease prevention is the primary motive.
The Church does not make up its own rules in moral issues. It teaches what has been received. Sex is about fertility, in fidelity. God has given man a very powerful incentive …to procreate. If people started obeying the laws of God, AIDS would disappear.
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