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Pope Benedict XVI waves during his weekly general audience on November 24, 2010. Credit: Tiziano Fabi, AFP/Getty Images
Pope Benedict recently said that it was OK for Catholics to use condoms when having sex if doing so would help prevent the spread of AIDS.
Since The Pope's remarks will be featured in an upcoming book of interviews and were not officially sanctioned by the Vatican, there has been some debate about what exactly he meant.
The issue of the Pope and condom use has been a hot topic for a long time. What do you think? Should the Pope remove the Church's condom ban?
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11-26-2010 @ 9:48AM
Mary Crossley said...It's gonna cost a lot more money using contraceptives, but on the bright side, it will cost less in health and child raising. There are a bunch of FREE items you can get from Http://bit.ly/dailysample No questions asked.
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11-27-2010 @ 7:24PM
victor b costet said...can't you read what you are writing????He said it would be the BETTER thing to do if you were t9o AVOID giving HIV to another person!!!!~
11-26-2010 @ 10:12AM
Alicia said...Yes, yes he should. Welcome to the 21st century, RCC. Time to be responsible and advocate for family planning. The reason many third world countries are so poor is because the church bans contraception, so people have too many children that they can't care for. Lift that ban and I guarantee the poverty and starvation rates will fall. Make contraception accessible and affordable (or free) to people world wide and those rates will fall even more.
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11-27-2010 @ 10:44AM
Sandyone said...From the linked article: French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin said the pope had not changed Church doctrine but he had "highlighted nuances, because human situations are sometimes very complex."
I'm not theologian and I don't have any intimate contact with someone who could give me HIV/AIDS, so I haven't been following this too closely.
Keep in mind that approving condoms for limiting HIV/AIDS transmission is far, far, far removed from approving condoms for birth control.
No, you will not see the Church approve condoms for birth control. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
Alicia, if you researched the logic behind not allowing contraception, you might understand that the Church really isn't in the Dark Ages on this issue. Quite the opposite, she is rather enlightened on sexual matters. This is a really long transcript, but your overpopulation point is discussed (and soundly refuted) on page 3. Until you do some basic research on why the Church teaches what it does, you have no business commenting on it.
/www.aodonline.org/aodonline-sqlimages/shms/faculty/SmithJanet/Publications/HumanaeVitae/ContraceptionWhyNot.pdf
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11-27-2010 @ 7:11PM
Alicia said...Ha! The Church, enlightened? Pull the other one. It's not just condoms, it's any birth control except NFP, which is fine and dandy, unless you have cystic ovaries or any other number of complications or are raped. Which, as we know, the church doesn't care about victims of rape and molestation. They've more than proven that. The Pope's a crazy old bat and I'm grateful every day that there are more moderate priests and practitioners to even out some of the horrific damage caused by the Vatican and its selfish, useless higher ups every day. Otherwise, I might lose what very little faith I continue to have in the possible good religion can do in the world. As it stands, I don't believe there's enough good to warrant believing in most of the vitriol they spew.
And Sandyone, if you researched the logic behind allowing contraception (Guttmacher Institute, your local Planned Parenthood, Sweden, France) then maybe you'd understand why it is ridiculous and irresponsible for one of the most powerful organizations in the world to deny the use of contraception. I also call bullsh*t on your assertion that people aren't influenced by their church's stand on contraception. Whether or not you believe my over-population statement (which I'm taking from the mouth of a social science professor) it is still wrong for anyone to limit a person's ability to choose what is best for them because God said so. Ask Ireland. Because of the church's ban on contraception, you couldn't legally buy any until the 80s. And you want to tell me that's not being "stuck in the Dark Ages"? That's about as medieval and uneducated and unenlightened as you can get.
I'm glad they smartened up and eased the ban in cases of high risk HIV/AIDS transmission, but cut the crap and lift it entirely. Though in an organization that took 400 years to come to their sense and realize "no shi*t! the earth revolves around the sun," I doubt they'll be that intelligent in my lifetime (with a good 60 years left in me at least), much less Pope Dracula's.