September 3, 2010  Print Email | Taking off condoms prevents aids, says Vatican
Comedy pope's infallible theory
Posted by Nick Farrell at 05:03 PM GMT on Mar 17, 2009 | JUST WHEN you hope that you can leave Pope Benedict XVI alone for a bit, the comedy pontiff sticks his infallible foot in his ineffable mouth again.
 Pope Benedict told the throngs in Africa that distributing condoms was not the way to stop Aids. In fact, he added, it makes the problem of Aids much worse. The pope said that a 'responsible and moral attitude' toward sex would help fight the disease.
He didn't quite say how this was the case, but he is infallible so be must be right.
The Roman Catholic Church rejects the use of condoms as part of its “every sperm is sacred” approach to artificial contraception.
While Benedict proudly pointed out that it was the Roman Catholic Church that was doing sterling work fighting Aids, priests on the ground in Africa are questioning his policy, which is just killing black people.
About 22 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, according to UNAIDS. In 2007, three-quarters of all AIDS deaths worldwide were there, as well as two-thirds of all people living with HIV.
Benedict is carrying out the policy of his successor Pope John Paul II, often said that sexual abstinence was the best way to prevent the spread of the disease. However it does rather assume that people will not have sex which is a bit optimistic. Likewise that people will listen to a man wearing a dress who claims he does not have sex, telling them how to do it.
Whole species of wild animals on the continent are on the verge of extinction because they eat humans infected with AIDS and spread it amongst their own kind. This is obviously OK with the Church, because very few lions wear condoms.
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