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November 20th, 2010
03:58 PM ET
Pope says condoms may be OK in some circumstances
Pope Benedict XVI said in comments released Saturday that the use of condoms may be morally acceptable in some cases to prevent the spread of AIDS, possibly foreshadowing a shift in the Roman Catholic Church's stance on the issue. The pope's remarks outline an exception to the church's long-held policy against the use of artificial contraception, including condoms. The pontiff, speaking to the author of a book that will be published next week, cited the example of a prostitute. "There could be single cases that can be justified, for instance when a prostitute uses a condom, and this can be a first step towards a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, to develop again the awareness of the fact that not all is allowed and that one cannot do everything one wants," Benedict said. The Vatican newspaper on Saturday released excerpts from the book, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times," written by German journalist Peter Seewald and pubilshed by Ignatius Press. "What makes this newsworthy is that he's talking about an exception, where there were no exceptions whatsoever before," said James Martin, a New York Jesuit priest and author. "Just that the discussion is happening is significant," he added. CNN Senior Vatican Analyst John Allen cautioned that Benedict's comments do not rise to the level of official Vatican policy, but show the pontiff has flexibility in the church's opposition to birth control. Allen said that a portion of the book refers to condom use among male prostitutes. "I think the point he was trying to make, when somebody is using a condom, not so much to prevent new life, which has always been the Catholic Church's big concern, but to prevent the transmission of disease than it would be OK," Allen told CNN. Although Benedict did not mention it, his statements indicate he may also find condoms appropriate in the case of heterosexual couples where one of the partners has a sexually transmitted disease, Allen added. Catholic theologians and a special Vatican commission have previously said that condoms may be acceptable in some cases to prevent AIDS, Allen wrote in a blog Saturday. But Benedict had kept silent on the issue. Allen said he does not think the pontiff's comments signal a sea change in the church's broader birth control policy, as condoning the use of a condom to prevent the spread of disease is not the same as saying it's okay to use one to prevent a pregnancy. Still, Benedict's comments open a door and appear to mark a shift in his thinking about condoms and AIDS. Speaking about AIDS in 2009, he told journalists during a trip to Africa that "You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."
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Condoms were always "ok" Get your facts in order!
Didn't know that the Pope knew how to use condoms.
Patricia...he obviously doesn't. I mean, how can I use the rubber to prevent the spread of AIDS and still get you pregnant?
"Didn't know that the Pope knew how to use condoms."
Oh, I'll bet he does. They make real handy dust covers for those dashboard Jesus statues... and during Holy Week you can use the purple ones...
The bible is the perfect in errant eternal word of God. Except for in the case where people change it to suit their desires carnally, socially, politically or personally. Thus we have Anglicans, Episcopaleans, Catholics, Lutheran, Baptists, Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons, Methodists...blah blah blah....there's a version of the bible, or its translation for any person regardless of his/her vice. Yeeeeeehaaaawww!!!!!!
Condoms are acceptible if you are a priest!!!!
LOL! What a breakthrough.
It took from 1633 till 1992 for the Catholic Church to vindicate Galileo on the earth not being the center of the universe. At least they are moving in somewhat the right direction who knows they might actually one day condemn pedophilia and those who cover it up. But that would be asking to much.
Which century does the Catholic church and the pope live in?
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Looks like God's been talking to Bennie again. Funny, how God changed His mind about condoms...in some cases.
Before, God was telling the popes that rubbers were wrong, period. When God's not busy helping Albert Pujols hit
home runs, He has time to reflect on these other issues (in the baseball off-season). When the heat is on, the Church
leaders put their corrupt heads together and come up with all kinds of BS tactics designed to win the public over.
Gee thanks Mr. Pope. Meanwhile, you and the Catholic leadership litererally have the blood of millions on your hands for your past viewpoints on this matter.
This is what is wrong with religion. Some stodgy old man says condoms are wrong and millions of people die of a horrible disease because they were brainwashed to think there is a magical invisible man in the sky who will punish them if they don't obey the stodgy old man.
If there is a God, and if there is a Hell, then the Pope and his chronies are most certainly going there for the death and destruction they helped wreak on Africa.
Why do we need religion?
because some (most) human are weak!!!
It is about time!!! Only bad thing is its approved for people that have aids what the heck about the ones that cant afford to raise the kids the have much less the ones that havent been concieved yet mayb the church should be making allotments to families with children then they might change their tune then they would be handing them out all the time this is the least problem that they have what r they doing to prevent pedofiles for being around children maybe they should stand up and take them all out and let people stone them then maybe it wouldnt be happening since there they would be punished instead of just relocating them to another place that they could do it again and again
Oh put your pe nis back in your pants! The Pope's comments were taken out of context!
About Damn Time: Were you actually waiting for that? Are you still afraid to eat meat on Friday?
Hell is having to use a condom for eternity............
and i care what he thinks...why?
wel, actually i do care when he propagates his anti (yet loving) gay poison to his followers. otherwise, i would be fine to let him do his thing if he would extend the same courtesy to...well, a lot of people..
Wow a huge shock that they shift their position again on yet another issue, does anyone with a brain really give a rats booty what this fossil thinks anyway? Shut it pope.
In other comments the Pope said it is alright to go to the hospital if you're having a heart attack.
Religion is such a joke! If they continually shift on their doctrines, they are admitting the previous ones were false! So HOW can they have any credibility?
This is what the bible says about people like the pope:
Mathew 7:21-23: “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness."
So the former member of the Nazi youth is okay with gay guys using a condom. Sounds like a fringe benefit for priests or a way to prevent leaving evidence behind (no pun intended)
Isn't the Catholic Church against contraception because it prevents future Catholic Church members from being born? They need the money flow and having more babies is like an insurance policy for the future for the Vatican.