Posted on 02/18/2016 12:27:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has suggested it is acceptable to use artificial contraception methods in countries affected by the Zika virus.
"Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil," he told reporters en route to Rome following his five-day trip to Mexico.
He cited Pope Paul VI's decree in the 1960s that allowed nuns serving in Africa to use contraception due to the threat of rape.
He said, "In certain cases, as in this one, such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear."
But he maintained the church's stance against abortion calling it "an absolute evil".
CDC's advice
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised men who have been to an area with Zika virus to abstain from sex or use condoms. It added that men with pregnant partners should abstain or use condoms for the duration of her pregnancy.
Experts suspect Zika could cause microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with unusually small heads because the brain has not developed properly or has stopped growing.
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Cat is out of the bag!
The press using weasel wording to make it sound like Francis said something completely different.
Too bad he pretty much sets himself up for this almost daily.
This what Rush was talking about.
Stan Laurel’s illegitimate son is doing great work for non-Catholic missionaries worldwide.
Keep it up, papa!
Like we didn't already know.
Next up: "blessings" for sodomite couples.
This Pope is prone to mouth diarrhea, you just knew Latin American Priest = Liberation Theology Brain Donor
Since barrier methods truly prevent conception I have always wondered why the RC did not choose it as a reasonable compromise is not as if Sola scriptura is there favorite concept.
If you think this may be called infallible, you don’t know what the word means in the context of Catholic Theology, which is the context that matters.
Bingo.
“The press using weasel wording to make it sound like Francis said something completely different.”
Afraid we can’t blame the press this time. Pope Francis specifically referred to an entirely different situation, i.e., nuns who were in danger of being raped, and were, therefore, permitted to take birth control pills. There was no intent on the nuns’ part to pervert the true end of a normal, moral act of intercourse. Women are not in danger of being “raped” by their husbands, so using contraception to avoid getting pregnant with a baby infected by a virus would be no different than using contraception to prevent getting pregnant with a baby who had, say, Down Syndrome.
This Pope is a dangerous dope.
If something is a sin, it’s a sin in everywhere.
This means he's violating law and therefore illegitimate. Correct?
I don't think avoiding pregnancy via contraception is ever evil.
“The press using weasel wording to make it sound like Francis said something completely different.”
Yep.
“Too bad he pretty much sets himself up for this almost daily.”
TRUE! He doesn’t seem to learn.
RE: If something is a sin, it’s a sin in everywhere.
I believe the Catholic church does understand mitigating factors.
For instance, lying is a sin.
But you are not held accountable if you lie to a Nazi to protect a Jew.
The intent and situation are always considered.
Right. PopeyDopey speaks off the cuff, not ex cathedra.
It’s not the press. The Pope really said this, showing himself to be something we always knew, a fool and the total tool of the UN, which set of the Zika panic in the first place.
That said, he has hinted that he has wanted to do this before (on his trip to the Philippines, even before the Zika panic), and this just gave him the opportunity.
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