Vatican tries desperately to explain to an agenda deaf media just what Pope Benedict meant about the use of condoms<\/a>. Turns out, the Pope wasn\u2019t really altering Church teaching to conform to the latest general knowledge.\u00a0 Instead, he was more or less affirming what the Church had always taught.\u00a0 The piece, to its credit, gets it mostly right, allowing the folks to be interviewed and more or less giving a fairly decent background on what happened.\u00a0 It can\u2019t resist mentioning the controversy over Pope Benedict\u2019s statement that condoms could increase HIV infections, this despite the fact that most disease research think tanks admit that a blind reliance on condoms can increase HIV infections.\u00a0 That is one of those times when you get the impression that the anger was at what Pope Benedict was standing for, not what he said.<\/p>\nAnyway, the piece lets us know that there was nothing really new under the sun.\u00a0 Though it does leave us with a member of the Jesuits who, naturally, sees this as a step in the right direction.\u00a0 Just what that implies can only be guessed.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ll hear more next week when the Vatican must release yet another clarification.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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