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From:	joya banerjee [ profile ]
Subject:	New York Times: After Condom Remarks, Vatican Confirms Shift
Sent:	Nov 24th, 2010 - 03:48:57

	Finally!!!!!!!! (Not completely, but a great first step!) After Condom Remarks, Vatican Confirms Shift http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/world/europe/24pope.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Excerpt: VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI clearly acknowledged on Tuesday that the need to prevent diseases like AIDS could outweigh the churchs long opposition to the use of condoms. It was a significant and stunning personal pronouncement from the conservative pope after more than two decades of heated debate inside the Roman Catholic Church and condemnation by health workers who said the churchs ban on prophylactics was morally indefensible during the AIDS crisis. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vaticans spokesman, said that for Benedict, the use of condoms by people infected with H.I.V. could be the first step of responsibility, of taking into consideration the risk to the life of the person with whom there are relations. Whether its a man or woman or a transsexual, he added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joya Banerjee, MS Global Health Fellow- Gender Specialist U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, South Africa Tel: +27 (0)12 424 9000 Mobile: +27 (0)82 309 4982 Email: BanerjeeJ (at) sa.cdc.gov

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