Ah, but the falls in the AIDS rate in Uganda have been credited mainly to lowering the number of sexual partners - nothing religious about that - alongside abstinence

Reducing your sexual partner to one- ie. your spouse is pretty much a key policy of the Christian Church- so why is that nothing ...

I think we all realise that the Catholic Church is a evil organisation which has spread nothing but misery in its 2000 year existance.

No, we're not all agreed. Nearly a billion members worldwide, are they all miserable on it's account?

It's track record is not good you know.Burning heritics ...

Just because I see the sense in something means I'm brainwashed? You honestly think you're the only well-informed, balanced one around? You're crazy. And your criticism of me is inductive of the kind of fascistic narrow-minded mentality you think you’re condemning when you criticise me/the Catholic ...

Currently the Catholic Church refuses to condone the use of condoms.

Not just currently- always.

People are going to have sex whether or not the church tells them not to,

That may well be true, but that’s their decision. The Church helps people make the right decision.

but as a result of ...

Sorry about the radio silence.

I wasn't sure to what degree you guys wanted to discuss this. Some folk are grumbling that it's all I talk about. But you have to start somewhere.

According to 'World' magazine, a report in the British medical journal Lancet warns that "increased condom use will ...

A tradition has to start somewhere. Therefore at some point it was a contemporary view. Why is the church (not just the Catholic church, though it's probably the best example) so afraid of change? Why does it decide that some "traditions" should be abandoned (stoning adulterers) yet others not ...

The Church's teaching on homosexuality is based on the dignity of Man. The Church does not discriminate against homosexuals, it deplores any unjust discrimination against them.
As for having sex. Why are you placing so much emphasis on sex? Do we all have a right to have sex whenever we want ...

Homosexual sex is specifically condemmed by Sacred Scripture. The Church, basing all of Her teaching on Sacred Tradition (which gives rise to Scripture) cannot condon homosexual activity.


I think too it wise at this point to note that on the death of His Holiness John Paul II, the Sacred College ...

So do you also condemn sex between infertile couples? Or women who've passed the menopause?

But that's an example of people who can't have children as opposed to those who deliberately want to prevent conception!

Marsi- Half-baked solutions? You say yourself that that condoms "almsot certainly" would prevent the spread. I for one wouldn't want to throw my weight behind one single (failing) programme ie. the distribution of condoms knowing it wasn't 100% effective. The Bush Administration sees the point and ...

The Pope has done so much good in his 26 years as Bishop of Rome. He's worked tirelessly for peace and justice- he was instrumental in the fall of evil communist regimes. He's worked tirelessly for the spread of the Gospel- giving millions of people all over the world the hope of God's promise of a ...