Heysoos Kreestay on a Raft! This is just so repulsively disgusting that I had to post the thing intact so you could see I wasn't making it up. And they dare to bitch that the Pope didn't get the Nobel Peace prize this year. Give me a break.


Roman Catholic Church Urges HIV Sufferers to Ditch Condoms

Agence France-Presse; October 10, 2003; International News
HEADLINE: Roman Catholic Church Urges HIV Sufferers to Ditch Condoms: BBC
DATELINE: LONDON, Oct 10
Agence France-Presse via NewsEdge Corporation: The Vatican is urging HIV sufferers around the globe not to use condoms, claiming contrary to health experts' advice that they do not help protect against the deadly virus, a BBC investigation has revealed.

HIV can pass through tiny holes in condoms, Roman Catholic leaders in four continents told a BBC television programme to be screened in Britain on Sunday.

Their claims, extracts of which have been released to media ahead of broadcast, are made in the BBC's award-winning investigative show Panorama, in an edition entitled "Sex and the Holy City".

The Roman Catholic church fiercely opposes artificial contraception, claiming it promotes promiscuity.

"The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon," one of the Vatican's most senior cardinals, Alfonso Lopez, told the programme.

"The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom," he said.

The show heard from a Catholic nun advising her HIV-infected choir master not to use condoms with his wife because "the virus can pass through".

Meanwhile the Archbishop of Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Nzeki, said condoms were helping to spread the virus.

"AIDS ... has grown so fast because of the availability of condoms," he said.

According to Panaroma, the claims about condoms are repeated by Catholics as far apart as Asia and Latin America.

"Statements like this are quite dangerous," a spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation told BBC News Online.

"We are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people and currently affects around 42 million.

"There is so much evidence to show that condoms don't let sexually transmitted infections like HIV through. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong," she added.
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