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The Pope and Condoms ...???

11/22/2010

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The Pope and Condoms: a note from the editor
RSS Facebook November 22, 2010

Thousands of secular media outlets-- and more than a few Catholic news services-- are leading their coverage today with headlines about Pope Benedict's statement on the use of condoms. CWN is not linking to those stories because, with rare exceptions, they are inaccurate.

Our news service exists to give Catholics (and others who are interested in the Church) an accurate guide to coverage of stories that affect the Church. Often we feel obligated to link to stories that contain some inaccuracies, because informed readers should be aware of what is being reported. But we never intentionally carry, or link to, stories that are entirely misleading. Most headline stories about the Pope's remarks fall into that category.

Pope Benedict did not alter, amend, or call into question the Church's teaching on contraceptive use.

Pope Benedict did not say that condom use is sometime morally acceptable.

Pope Benedict did not back away from his earlier statements, in which he had argued that condom distribution is an ineffective way to fight AIDS. On the contrary, he made his latest controversial remarks in the context of a conversation in which he was defending that argument.

Ordinarily CWN links to secular news stories because our readers can increase their understanding by perusing those stories. Today, a reader who wants an accurate understanding of what the Pope actually said would be better served by ignoring the secular media coverage.

For a more extended treatment, see my In-Depth Analysis of this controversy and of how it arose.

- Phil Lawler Editor, CWNews
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veritas899 link
11/22/2010 02:08:44 pm

The Pope's statement was taken out of context... that's all....

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Aide
11/22/2010 02:15:02 pm

Benedict XVI Doesn't Justify Condom Use. Notes Pope's Ability to See Small Steps of Impoverished Humanity.
Father Lombardi noted that Benedict XVI answered the writer, German journalist Peter Seewald by insisting
"on the fact that focusing only on condoms is equivalent to banalizing
sexuality, which loses its meaning as an expression of love between
persons and becomes a 'drug.'"The spokesman affirmed that "fighting against banalization of sexuality is 'part of the great effort to help sexuality be valued positively and have a positive effect on man in his totality.'"He added, "In the light of this broad and profound vision of human sexuality and the contemporary discussion of it, the Pope reaffirms that 'naturally the Church does not consider condoms as the authentic and moral solution' to the problem of AIDS.""In this the Pope does not reform or change the Church's teaching, but reaffirms it," the priest stated."At
the same time the Pope considers an exceptional circumstance in which
the exercise of sexuality represents a real threat for the life of another," the spokesman explained.



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Linda D
3/10/2011 07:56:04 am

Thanks for this.

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