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Contrary to Catholic Teaching Belgian Cardinal Advocates Use of Condoms to Fight AIDS
BRUSSELS, January 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 70, the left-leaning media favorite to become the next pope, has unleashed another firestorm by publicly advocating the use of condoms as protection from HIV/AIDS. "When someone is seropositive and his partner says: I want to have sexual relations with you -- he doesn't have to do that, if you ask me -- but when he does, he has to use a condom...," said Daneels in a radio interview Sunday.
Speaking on the Kruispunt programme of Dutch Catholic broadcaster RKK, Daneels said, "This (the use of condoms) comes down to protecting yourself in a preventive manner against a disease or death, (it) cannot be entirely morally judged in the same manner as a pure way of birth limitation."
The interview marks the second time in the last few months the Cardinal has publicly stirred controversy over condoms. In October Daneels held a press conference at his residence in which he publicly belittled fellow Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, repeated the Church's teaching against contraception to a BBC program, and also noted the scientific evidence showing that condoms are not fail-safe protection against AIDS. Cardinal Daneels, was quoted by Reuters saying of Cardinal Trujillo's comments, "I deplore that comment the way it was received. It does not befit a cardinal to deal with the virtue of a product ... I don't know if what he said is reliable."
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12452562.htm http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03101703.html ______________________________________________________
Belgian Cardinal Holds Press Conference to Slam Curial Cardinal over Statements Against Condoms
MECHELEN, Belgium, October 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Belgian Cardinal
Godfried Danneels, 70, the left-leaning media favorite to become the next pope, held a press conference at his residence Wednesday, in which he publicly belittled fellow Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo.
Cardinal Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, repeated the Church's teaching against contraception to a BBC program, and also noted the scientific evidence showing that condoms are not fail-safe protection against AIDS. He suggested that rather than allow the false image of 'safe sex' with condoms, condom packages should warn consumers that they are not reliable protection against the deadly disease.
Cardinal Daneels, was quoted by Reuters saying of Cardinal Trujillo's comments, "I deplore that comment the way it was received. It does not befit a cardinal to deal with the virtue of a product ... I don't know if what he said is reliable."
Beyond the obvious fact that condoms often break, Cardinal Trujillo pointed to scientific evidence that the rubber used in condoms has tiny holes through which the microscopic AIDS virus can easily pass. "The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon," he said. "The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' formed by the condom."
See the Reuters report on the
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=3619216§ion=news See evidence for the condom holes
http://dianedew.com/condom.htm