Pope makes U-Turn on Catholic Condom Policy

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Highly Criticised for a whlie now the Catholic Church seems to have realised they live on earth and earthly things will bite you when they can. In a series of interviews to appear in a book published this week, the pope said that, though the use of condoms should not be seen as a "moral solution", he stepped back from the Vatican's blanket ban on all forms of contraception.






"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," said the leader of the world's 1.1billion Roman Catholics.
"There may be justified individual cases, for example when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be ... a first bit of responsibility, to redevelop the understanding that not everything is permitted and that one may not do everything one wishes," Pope Benedict was quoted as saying in the new book.
He reiterated that condom use alone would not solve the problem of HIV/Aids: "More must happen," he said..

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Facts are Facts, and can't be denied, while people are out there , engaging in sexual acts, in today's society, it's rateher reckless to put this blanket ban on condoms. While others feel contraceptives encourage, sexual promiscuity. The debate will rage on but it seems as though the Roman Catholic Church is moving out of the dark ages.

L.G
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