Pope Benedict says that condoms can be used to stop the spread of HIV

[sharkey360]

---

Lots of negative reactions to Pacquiao's opposition to RH bill via Twitter feeds, according to GMA news.

[sharkey360]

On contraceptive policy, the Vatican is a hostage to itself

Once again we read of the pope’s struggle to extract Catholics from their self-imposed contraceptive blockade (“Faithful react to pope’s condom justification,” Nov. 22). It is all amusing and would make a swell comic opera. But alas, the issue is deadly serious for the hundreds of thousands of people horribly suffering or dead of AIDS and other preventable sexually transmitted diseases.

American Catholics sneak contraceptives behind the pope’s back and use them at the same rate as other Americans. Yet they give moral and financial support to an archaic, superstitious system. How can that be ethical?

You might ask: Why doesn’t the Vatican just change? It can’t; the Vatican is hostage to its own invention, something called papal infallibility. In 1964, Pope Paul VI created the Papal Commission on Population and Birth Control. The two-part commission (made up of 64 laypeople and 15 clerics) was assigned a question: How can the Church change its position on birth control without undermining papal infallibility? The commission resolved (with the laity voting 60-4 and the clergy 9-6) that it could not be done but should be done anyway as it was the right thing to do.

The man who later became pope, John Paul II, wrote the minority report, which stated that if the Church changed, “We should have to concede frankly that the Holy Spirit had been on the side of the Protestant churches in 1930 ... and in 1951 ... and again in ... 1958. ... It should likewise have to be admitted that for a half century the Spirit failed to protect Pius XI, Pius XII and a large part of Catholic hierarchy from very serious error. This would mean that the leaders of the Church, acting with extreme imprudence, had condemned thousands of innocent human acts, forbidding, under pain of eternal damnation, a practice that now would be declared licit on the grounds of principles cited by the Protestants.”

Oh, horrors!

So, of course, the birth-control doctrine was never changed.

If there is a saving grace, it is that the Catholic Church codifies and records its own nonsense. You can read it for yourself. “The Catholic Doctrine and Reproductive Health: Why the Church Can’t Change,” by Stephen D. Mumford, can be found at secularhumanism.org.

On contraceptive policy, the Vatican is a hostage to itself | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

[yhokz101]

Rep. Pacquiao opposes RH bill, condom use - Nation - GMANews.TV - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News


Filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao on Monday expressed his opposition to the controversial Reproductive Health bill currently pending in Congress.

At a press conference in the House of Representatives, Pacquiao, a devout Catholic, said he is for natural family planning method, particularly abstinence.

"Magtiis tayo, dapat may pagtitiis tayo. Makasalanan yung paggamit ng condom at pagpapalaglag ng bata (We should control ourselves. Condoms and abortions are sinful)," he said.

"Magsakripisyo kayong mga lalaki. Yung mga babae din pala. Minsan yung babae pa ang nangangalabit (Men should control their urges. Women too, because sometimes it's the woman who initiates the move)," he added, eliciting laughter from some of those present in the press briefing.

He said there is nothing in the Bible that tells parents to limit their children to two. "Hindi naman sinabi na 'Go out and multiply' pero dalawa lang ang anak (The Bible does not state that parents should go out and multiply but limit the number of offspring to two)."

Pacquiao, 31, has four children with wife Jinkee. - Amita O. Legaspi/KBK, GMANews.TV

pug-ngan lage jud ang biga.. nawa ni oh! tsk tsk tsk... hehehehe
bitaw noh.. imho, controlling is very difficult but yet mao cguro ni ang effective na solution sa issue.. pero human as we are weak lang ta.. but dili ingon na dili na mahimo. mao ni ang kuwang sa atoa.. hehehehe tukso layuan mo ako!!!!!

[cobraKing]

spread the love not the virus....

[peewee_toot]

Bro... nangutana imo silingan..
kanus-daw ma expire ang condom.. ug pwde na ba daw tangtangun?

wahahaha. this made my day. pastilan dyud!

[necrotic freak]

pug-ngan lage jud ang biga.. nawa ni oh! tsk tsk tsk... hehehehe
bitaw noh.. imho, controlling is very difficult but yet mao cguro ni ang effective na solution sa issue.. pero human as we are weak lang ta.. but dili ingon na dili na mahimo. mao ni ang kuwang sa atoa.. hehehehe tukso layuan mo ako!!!!!

mao nay lisod kaayo.. saunang panahon maka pugong pa sila kay tagas paman ug palda mga babae. karon?! di man gani kapogong si pader. lols

[yhokz101]

mao nay lisod kaayo.. saunang panahon maka pugong pa sila kay tagas paman ug palda mga babae. karon?! di man gani kapogong si pader. lols

OT: tag-as pa ug palda brad sa una dili paman overpopulated..gamay ra mo gamit. karon kay overpopulated naman.. so nihit ang panapton bai..nihit, pa kigol angmga sanina sa mga bae. blame it sa clothing industry! hehehehe

OnT: Basin jud cguro noh, contributing sad ni ang media.. like sa tv, movie ug magazine nawa ra gud nang mga bae nag sayaw2x sa tv arang seksiha jud tawn ... spread the love not the virus jud.

[kit_cebu]

bisan pa ug mo ingon ang santo papa/cardinal nga dili jud na pwde sa simbahan. wala man gihapon sila mahimo sa mga tao nga gihatagan sa gift of free will sa ginoo..

i call it common sense...

[kit_cebu]

Lots of negative reactions to Pacquiao's opposition to RH bill via Twitter feeds, according to GMA news.

good for him daghan siya kwarta to support bisan 30 pa ka bata....

[sharkey360]

Female *** workers can use condoms too, says Pope

The Vatican has appeared to expand the Catholic Church's tolerance of condoms as a means of fighting HIV, backing their use by female prostitutes, days after the Pope said their use by male *** workers was better than spreading the virus.

Pope Benedict XVI was quoted at the weekend saying condom use by male prostitutes could be a good thing, indicating the user's intention to protect others from a deadly infection, apparently condoning the use of contraceptives for the first time. The Vatican yesterday confirmed that the same message applied to women *** workers.

Observers said the pontiff's message that condom use, and its inherent ability to prevent conception, was justifiable on health grounds, represented a seismic shift by the Church. "This is a game-changer," said James Martin, a Jesuit priest and culture editor of the religious magazine America.

When extracts from interviews with the Pope appeared from the new book, Light of the World, by German journalist Peter Seewald, the pontiff's comments about condom use at first appeared to refer to male prostitutes, because the original German text used the masculine gender for the word.

However, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, said yesterday that the remarks referred to female *** workers as well.

"I personally asked the Pope if there was a serious, important problem in the choice of the masculine over the feminine," Mr Lombardi said. "He told me no. The problem is this... It's the first step of taking responsibility, of taking into consideration the risk of the life of another with whom you have a relationship."

Female *** workers can use condoms too, says Pope - Europe, World - The Independent