This story<\/a> is actually a little better. It allows some who are traditional, orthodox Catholics to have a say.\u00a0 Obviously there is much confusion, and the Vatican\u00a0spokesman\u2019s answers have not helped.\u00a0 The main culprit, however, which is not mentioned in the AP piece, is obviously the media itself.\u00a0 If one steps aside and looks at not only the quote from the book, but the subsequent statements from the Vatican, it\u2019s clear there is nothing really new here.\u00a0Perhaps, at best, a reaching across the aisle to find some common ground from which to get the Sex Culture to see the light. The Pope is saying condoms are wrong.\u00a0 The Pope is saying the modern secular take on sexuality is a mess.\u00a0 The Pope is saying that someone who uses a condom is at least admitting what the secular progressive movement has tried desperately to deny: that we are moral creatures and have an obligation to others rather than just to ourselves.\u00a0 But the confusion is there, at least at this point, from headline after headline from the MSM\u00a0that says \u2018POPE RADICALLY CHANGES CHURCH TEACHING ON CONDOMS!\u2019\u00a0 This, along with endless interviews of AIDS, Gay, and Liberal activists who see this a a giant step toward changing the Church to conform to modern desires, has to be adding to the confusion.\u00a0 My opinion: Ignore the media, the Pope needs to step out and say something, and assume that the Church hasn\u2019t just tossed 2000 years of Tradition out the window because of the stellar job flinging condoms at the problem has done for reducing AIDS over the last thirty years.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story is actually a little better. It allows some who are traditional, orthodox Catholics to have a say.\u00a0 Obviously there is much confusion, and the Vatican\u00a0spokesman\u2019s answers have not helped.\u00a0 The main culprit, however, which is not mentioned in the AP piece, is obviously the media itself.\u00a0 If one steps aside and looks at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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