Pope says its ok to wear a condom!

[downbeatplumb]

The pope:There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection.

That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality.

Peter Seewald: Are you saying, then, that the Catholic Church is actually not opposed in principle to the use of condoms?

Pope Benedict: She of course does not regard it as a real or moral solution, but, in this or that case, there can be nonetheless, in the intention of reducing the risk of infection, a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.

This is a little chink of light into a hitherto intractable position. Lets hope he softens this view further.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11804798

[ib.me.ub]

Well a step in the right direction. Eventually, even the church won't be able to stop progression.

Edit: If we don't run out of time.

[Welsh cake]

The hypocrite can finally show his face in public.

[LastPoet]

Well, he was bound to see that he's actions were driving away some sheep, he's just trying to do damage control.

[Anomalocaris]

Too bad his father didn't use a condom.

[Minimalist]

I'm sure there is a secret memo out to his pervert priests to wear one too. You never know if the altar boy you're sodomizing has previously been done by an infected priest.

[Lethe]

Already? If I remember correctly, didn't it take the Catholic Church well over three hundred years to vindicate Galileo? For them, this type of progress is unprecedentedly quick.

[The Omnissiunt One]

Wow, moral progress indeed. Now he just needs to get round to allowing the use of condoms in any situation, allowing gay relationships, allowing equal rights for women in his church, allowing stem cell research, allowing abortion and allowing divorce. Then he'll be just about fit for the twenty-first century.

[DiRNiS]

Wow, moral progress indeed. Now he just needs to get round to allowing the use of condoms in any situation, allowing gay relationships, allowing equal rights for women in his church, allowing stem cell research, allowing abortion and allowing divorce. Then he'll be just about fit for the twenty-first century.

Maybe when pigs start to fly and hell freezes over. Seriously, their church and religion are what impede catholic priests from being fit for the 21st century.

[Thor]

But the church still considers it "immoral" to use a condom for purposes of contraception.

Of course!

They want their sheep to have as many kids as possible! Then the kids grow up and (hopefully) go to church every week, throwing money in the collection plate! It ensures a steady cash flow to the church!