Basically, the Pope has said that if you use a condom to prevent disease transmission, that is better than not using one and knowlingly infecting someone with something.
I suspect he has always thought this, as have most other catholic theologians 0 but has only now been able to express it openly.
Horribly biased article from the Guardian that describes the historical Vatican position as both "wicked" and "romantic" in the opening paragraph:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ban-overturned
People have been jumping up exicitedly about this all day, but I fail to see the interest really - at least not the way left-leaning Liberals do. The position is an obvious case of opting for the "lesser Sin" between two Sins, which is pretty central to catholicism in its various denominational varients.
Shock horror.
So, have at boys.
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