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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29404-2005Jan22.html
Pope Rejects Condoms As a Counter to AIDS
Church Doctrine on Abstinence Affirmed
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, January 23, 2005; Page A23
ROME, Jan. 22 -- After several days of unusual public debate among
senior figures in the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II on
Saturday reaffirmed church teaching that urges abstinence and marital
fidelity to stop the spread of AIDS and forbids condoms.
"The Holy See . . . considers that it is necessary above all to combat
this disease in a responsible way by increasing prevention, notably
through education about respect of the sacred value of life and
formation of the correct practice of sexuality, which presupposes
chastity and fidelity."
In the Vatican's teaching, phrases such as "sacred value of life" and
"correct practice of sexuality" generally preclude contraception.
His words followed a week in which a high official of Spain's Bishops
Conference said there was "a place" for condoms in AIDS prevention, but
then was overruled by the full Bishops Conference, and other leaders
weighed in to suggest publicly that a policy change might be
appropriate.
In recent days, the pope has also stressed the role of Catholic health
workers in tending to the AIDS-stricken. "At my request, the church has
mobilized in favor of the victims and especially in order to assure
access to help and the necessary medical care through a number of
treatment centers," he said. He was referring to the Holy See's Good
Samaritan Foundation, established last year to coordinate funds and
organizations to help AIDS victims.
The Vatican has depicted contraception as part of an attack on the
"culture of life" because it blocks the creation of children. On
Saturday, John Paul II also repeated the Vatican's condemnation of
euthanasia, which the Netherlands has legalized and which in the
pontiff's view is an example of the "culture of death."
"The Holy See has made known its clear position and invites Catholics
in the Netherlands always to show their absolute respect for human
life, from conception to natural death," the pope said in the
statement.
Pope Paul VI banned the use of contraception 37 years ago, and at that
time the issue was almost entirely birth control. Ever since, high
church officials have considered the question largely to be closed. But
the AIDS pandemic has led to calls from some corners of the global
church for authorizing at least one form of contraception -- condoms --
as a means of preventing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from
spreading.
Two cardinals in Europe this week separately spoke of a hypothetical
situation in which use of a condom might be justified: when a woman
must have sex with someone who is infected with HIV and therefore must
protect herself.
And in Mexico City, a bishop said at a news conference Friday that
condom use could be a "lesser evil" if employed to prevent AIDS. "If
someone is incapable of controlling their instincts . . . then they
should do whatever is necessary in order not to infect others," said
Felipe Arizmendi, bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas, in far southern
Mexico.
The comments followed months of ferment in the church over how to
approach AIDS prevention. Last year, the Catholic Agency for Overseas
Development (CAFOD) published a paper urging a range of methods to
fight AIDS.
"For many in Africa and Asia, sex is often the only commodity people
have to exchange for food, school fees, exam results, employment or
survival itself in situations of violence," the paper said. "Any
strategy that enables a person to move from a higher-risk towards the
lower end of the continuum, CAFOD believes, is a valid risk reduction
strategy."
Vatican officials have said that in the field some individual priests
or health care workers might see fit to counsel use of condoms in
particular cases. But the officials emphasized that such instances did
not represent a change in teaching.
"The problem is that anytime we try to give a nuanced response, we see
headlines that say, 'Vatican approves condoms.' The issue is more
complicated than that," Monsignor Angel Rodriguez Luno, a professor of
moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, said on
Friday. "From a moral point of view, we cannot condone contraception.
We cannot tell a classroom of 16-year-olds they should use condoms.
"But if we are dealing with someone or a situation in which clearly
persons are going to act in harmful ways, say, a prostitute who is
going to continue her activities, then one might say, 'Stop. But if you
are not going to, at least do this,' " said Luno, who is an adviser to
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a Vatican department
charged with safeguarding orthodoxy.
One possible avenue for a new condom policy would be a
"lesser-of-two-evils" approach. In this regard, condoms could be
approved as a means of reducing the instance of danger or sin in cases
where someone is bent on having extramarital sex or sex with a spouse
while infected with HIV.
Rodriguez Luno -- without endorsing a new policy -- placed the issue in
the context of the Ten Commandments. Sex outside of marriage already
breaks the Sixth Commandment, which forbids adultery, he said.
"Infecting someone with AIDS would also mean sinning against the Fifth
Commandment -- you shall not kill," he said. "Condoms would diminish
that danger."
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 Church Doctrine on Abstinence Affirmed
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