On Aug 8, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Old news. And not even news. The Pope has never been against condoms
as protection against disease--only against their use for birth
control. For a very long time, in Catholic France even when the
capitalist government was "anticlerical," condoms were perfectly
legal--they just were required to have tiny perforations to allow
semen to escape but keep disease-bearing fluids from infecting the
[male] Faithful.
[or is this a joke?]
The Pope drops Catholic ban on condoms in historic shift
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
The Pope has signalled a historic shift in the position of the Roman
Catholic Church by saying condoms can be morally justified.
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent
After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception,
the Pontiff has ended the Church’s absolute ban on the use of condoms.
He said it was acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole
intention was to “reduce the risk of infection” from Aids.
While he restated the Catholic Church’s staunch objections to
contraception because it believes that it interferes with the creation
of life, he argued that using a condom to preserve life and avoid
death could be a responsible act – even outside marriage.
Asked whether “the Catholic Church is not fundamentally against the
use of condoms,” he replied: “It of course does not see it as a real
and moral solution. In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce
the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a first step on the way
to another, more humane sexuality.”
He stressed that abstinence was the best policy in fighting the
disease but in some circumstances it was better for a condom to be
used if it protected human life.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/8148944/The-Pope-drops-Catholic-ban-on-condoms-in-historic-shift.html
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Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you
should at least know the nature of that evil.
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