The Pope Says That He Will Now Allow Condoms!?
Question by steven: the pope says that he will now allow condoms!?
hey come on popie get your preists and bishops stop abusing and get a life!
Best answer:
Answer by Fred Bauder
Condoms are allowed for gay sex, but that should serve for some priests, and bishops.
Answer by imacatholic2
The Pope’s statement is not really a new Church teaching.
The experts say:
Last year, Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, wrote: “In every African country in which HIV infections declined, this decline has been associated with a decrease in the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sex partner over the course of a year—which is exactly what fidelity programs promote.”
And: “Many countries that have not seen declines in HIV have seen increases in condom use, but in every country worldwide in which HIV has declined there have been increases in levels of faithfulness and usually abstinence as well.” http://www.harvardaidsprp.org/index.html
Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee wrote: The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. Telling men and women to keep sex sacred — to save sex for marriage and then remain faithful — is telling them to love one another deeply with their whole hearts. Most HIV infections in Africa are spread by sex outside of marriage: casual sex and infidelity. The solution is faithful love. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901477.html?wpisrc=newsletter
See also:
+ The Washington Post, “The Pope May be Right”, March 29, 2009: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702825.html
+ Science, “Reassessing HIV Prevention”, May 9, 2008: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/320/5877/749?ck=nck
The Catholic Church has never asked unmarried people to have unprotected sex. Neither has she asked married couples with diseases to have unprotected sex.
Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God’s gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control is against the will of God.
If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?
People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).
Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.
In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church’s practice is usually not to tell people how to sin. With or without a condom:
• Fornication is still fornication
• Adultery is still adultery
• Rape is still rape
Now in the new book “Light of the World,” the Pope repeated his argument that focusing exclusively on condoms damages human sexuality, making it “banal” and turning it into a kind of “drug.” But he went on to say that in specific single cases — like prostitutes — condom use may be justified as a first step toward taking moral responsibility for one’s actions. http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/the-popes-comments-on-condoms/
With love in Christ.
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