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Vatican Clarifies Condom Comments - Condoms OK In Certain Circumstances

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/vatican-condoms-for-hiv-p_n_787629.html

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VATICAN CITY — In a seismic shift on one of the most profound – and profoundly contentious – Roman Catholic teachings, the Vatican said Tuesday that condoms are the lesser of two evils when used to curb the spread of AIDS, even if their use prevents a pregnancy.

The position was an acknowledgment that the church's long-held anti-birth control stance against condoms doesn't justify putting lives at risk.

"This is a game-changer," declared the Rev. James Martin, a prominent Jesuit writer and editor.

The new stance was staked out as the Vatican explained Pope Benedict XVI's comments on condoms and HIV in a book that came out Tuesday based on his interview with a German journalist.

The Vatican still holds that condom use is immoral and that church doctrine forbidding artificial birth control remains unchanged. Still, the reassessment on condom use to help prevent disease carries profound significance, particularly in Africa where AIDS is rampant.
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13 comments // Vatican Clarifies Condom Comments - Condoms OK In Certain Circumstances

  • Eddie_Miller
  • nfl2shop
  • nfl2shop
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +1
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • regardless of my personal feelings on the corporation that is the holy see, i am at least grateful that this decision was finally made. yes we can blast them for being too late, too little, too whatever, but i prefer to applaud a step in the roght direction and hope for the best. even from money hungry misogynistic child molesters who practice symbolic ritual cannibalism and are led by a nazi.

      i keed i keed.. lol

    • 1 year ago
  • hammywill
    • 0
      hammywill  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      I agree with you here. It's not as if an institution that has been around for thousands of years can instantly reverse their stance on issues that are inherent to the Catholic mindset. Baby steps is sometimes a very effective method. The analogy of the slow kid, although it implies the slow kid is evil, is accurate in a clinical sense. The Catholic mindset it retarded (and I mean that not in the colloquial sense, I mean it in the definitive stance) and can not simply be asked to change overnight. Perhaps slow moves to the center are the better way to implement changes within such an institution.

    • 1 year ago
  • Prijedor
  • Dmerza1989
  • randallr01
    • +5
      randallr01  

    • There are still some Catholics that believe tampons cause a loss of virginity. When I was on the swim team in HS, my Coach would have to fight parents who would refuse to allow their daughters to use tampons *in the swimming pool* for that reason. When you think about it, that's disgusting. All in the name of virginity.

      (And thanks to brainwashing & fear-mongering of the Catholic Church.)

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • +3
      freecrack  

    • its like watching the slow kid kid ever so painfully struggle to understand common sense.maybe in another hundred years they will get thay condoms are just simply a benefit, not the work of the devil.

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
  • cztheday
    • +3
      cztheday  

    • I don't believe that the Pope has moved at all on his position. The Vatican explained that he does not support condom use under any circumstances. He only supports the notion that one using a condom to prevent the spread of AIDS is at least showing a positive movement toward more moral behavior -- in the same way that a person who decides to use a lead pipe instead of a gun to rob people is taking a positive step. The Pope would, in the latter circumstance still find the robbery reprehensible. This is just another case of the media making something out of nothing.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • EthicalVegan
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