Edward C. Green: The Pope May Be Right

Posted by Kendall Harmon

When Pope Benedict XVI commented this month that condom distribution isn't helping, and may be worsening, the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, he set off a firestorm of protest. Most non-Catholic commentary has been highly critical of the pope. A cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer, reprinted in The Post, showed the pope somewhat ghoulishly praising a throng of sick and dying Africans: "Blessed are the sick, for they have not used condoms."

Yet, in truth, current empirical evidence supports him....

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Posted March 29, 2009 at 7:45 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Harvey wrote:

I bet that I am not the only serviceman who remembers the boot camp lecture about condoms.  Abstinence was the best policy.  It seems the rubber shields had a lot of microscopic holes big enough for living things to pass through; particularly all kinds of virus.

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