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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Maybe the church should get out of the medical business

James Martin SJ has a post at America magazine's blog with a news video from PBS on the Vatican AIDS Conference. I'd watched the video last night at Google news and found it so depressing because I think condom use does help prevent AIDS and that the church's stance of abstinence instead is likely getting people killed.

Anyway, the video is well worth a watch. It mentions the Vatican's continued policy of disallowing people with AIDS to use condoms despite hopes generated by the pope's book interview (cynical me had no such hopes) and there's an interview with Bishop Kevin Dowling (God only knows how long it will be before that brave person is fired). Here's the video ....




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