another chink in the wall

[winterbadger]

A senior Vatican cardinal has joined the growing number of influential Catholic Church figures questioning the official Vatican ban on condom use.

Cardinal Georges Cottier is one of Pope John Paul II's preferred theologians.

So eyebrows were raised this week when he was quoted as saying the use of condoms may be legitimate to stop the spread of Aids in poor countries.

The cardinal said there was moral justification for condom use under certain circumstances to counter Aids.

Churchmen are arguing with increasing frequency that the traditional blanket ban on the use of condoms is no longer valid.

Cardinal Cottier said it was no longer a question only of allowing the transmission of life, but of actively preventing the transmission of death to a sexual partner.


full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4226489.stm

Comments

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I wish the Church would ditch Paul altogether.

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

well, J. Domincik Crossan woudl have us beleive we've just misunderstood him; and he some good arguments for that. of course, the arguemnts assume we will not read literally, as though the verses were divine dictation-- and in English ;-)