What do people think of the Catholic church spreading rumours about condoms?

Question

Check out this website www.gaurdian.co.uk/aids/story for some interesting info about the power of the Catholic church in some countries, example in Kenya 20% of people have aids but the Catholic church reports to the people that condoms don't work, that they have holes in them and that they can cause aids. Is this right? What are your thoughts

I CAN'T GET ON IT NOW EITHER!! but just put Catholic church,aids and condoms in a search engine and the guardian pages will ome up

Answer 1

In Mexico that happens as well. The Church contributed to make sex and pleasure a sin that would damn you for eternity and cast you into the eternal flames of hell. Premarital sex was a male prerrogative, women were subjugated to the point that they were just one more household item, to be used. A famous Mexican saying goes something like this. Women ought to be akin to rifles, always loaded (pregnant) and tucked behind the door. The macho attitude is fading fast, young Mexican couples pretty much do what they want. There is an ongoing war here between the moralist organizations that waste their time promoting the evils of using a condom, and horrified at the idea of sex education in schools. Young girls frequently buy condoms at convenience stores and supermarkets without anyone raising an eyebrow. Personally I find this to be a safer choice than ending up pregnant or infected with a sexually transmitted disease. Young girls here are becoming aware that the male is negligent when it comes to protection, so girls have had to take control and responsibility of their sex life, they buy condoms and make their partners use them, or they don't get to dip Cecil in the hot grease, if you know what I mean. Girls are tending to trust the condoms they buy rather than those their partners carry. Too many of them have heard these urban horror myths about condoms with holes and the like.

The Church unfortunately refuses to accept that they may no longer impose themselves on anyone's intimacy. The Church is responsible for many unwanted pregnancies with their prejudices. Using condoms is a public health issue, not a moral issue. And let's face it. Abstinence is a concept right out of utopian ideals, unfortunately we do not live by those ideals, and God also gave you free will, and being able to distinguish good from bad gives you the liberty to make your own decisions, and to live with the consequences of your decisions.

Planned Parenthood here has met with a lot of opposition from the Church. I've known friends of mine who have had to lie to the priest about using any birth control method once they are married, because they are supposed to bear all the Children God sends you, regardless of the number. The economic situation many of these young couples find themselves makes it almost impossible not to use contraception. They will have to raise the children, not the Church. As a consequence everyone turns a blind eye on the fact that you are not honoring a commitment made before God at the altar. Even priests know this but they go through the motions as if it were just one more thing to tick off the list. There's an enormous importance placed on the Religious Marriage, rather than the legal one.

What's happening in Africa has happened here for a loooooong time, and thank God things are changing.

Believe, me I have nothing against the Church, there are many good things and they have been an inspiration for many to be better persons, but there are some things that really need overhauling. The Church is alienating many of the faithful because of things like these.

Some things never change, people, Thank God, do.

Answer 2

The link you provided doesn't work, at least it didn't for me.

I think this issue is a matter of specific details, and making sure there is no spin or agenda in the reporting. For example, if the Catholic church is just telling people that condoms never prevent AIDS, that's a problem. But if the Catholic church is telling people that condoms are not 100% effective in preventing AIDS, then there's no problem because that's true.

My guess is that the Catholic church is telling people that condoms are not 100% effective and the only method that is 100% effective is abstinence. This is all true and I would have no problem with this.

Answer 3

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.

People who are already ignoring the more important teachings 1 and 2 should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching 3.

It is within the Christian (and Catholic) teaching of the lesser or two evils for an infected spouse to use a condom to try to protect the other spouse instead of infecting him or her with a deadly disease.

It should also be remembered that condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected anyway.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

I've never heard anything of the sort. In fact the Catholic Church in Spain just made a huge decision to support the use of condoms in the prevention against the spread of AIDS.

Answer 5

I comprehend what you're saying yet no, the Catholic Church isn't to blame for the spread of AIDS. all of us comprehend that AIDS is spread by contact with contaminated human beings, no matter if this is sexual contact, needles or blood transfusions. with the objective to respond to your question that is those 3 issues that are to blame for the spread of AIDS. analyze teach that handing out condoms promotes risky sexual habit which no longer in straight forward words places human beings in possibility for AIDS, yet different risky ailments besides. And why would the Catholic Church favor to promote immoral habit even as God instructions that we promote chastity? In international places like Uganda the position abstinence courses are used truly than condom distribution the fulfillment prices in reducing AIDS are a lot more desirable. Why? by using the indisputable fact that is extra efficient to promote a replace in habit truly than purely purely deal with the "symptom" by handing out condoms. the a lot less human beings there are pleasing in risky behaviors, the a lot less we would have new circumstances of AIDS. So in very reality the Catholic Church (and different entities the international over) are genuinely helping extra to end the spread of AIDS. Aleria's answer above is ideal on the right song! Pax Vobiscum+

Answer 6

The Catholic church's opposition to contraception, historically, is rooted in its desire to breed its duped victims into starvation. It's why Irish couples used to have so many children they could afford to eat a couple now and then. When people are desperately poor, they remain ignorant and less able or inclined to question the authority of the church.

The advent of AIDS should have ended this dreadful doctrine, but it hasn't. The church is now denying people the one thing that could realistically save Africa from AIDS. (Abstinence is not feasible, especially in that heat.) Any Catholic who honestly believes it's a sin to protect yourself from HIV should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves - even more so than their religion demands.

Answer 7

I finally found the story you were talking about.

Thursday October 9, 2003

It's hardly news anymore. But the idea that the Catholic church is an evil liars' forum was old news to me long before even that.

Here's the link to the story this question is all about:

Answer 8

They are no rumours the condoms in africa are not made from latex thus tehy actually do have holes bigger than the AIDS virus do your research into the deep ideas behind this and you will be surprised... the church of all organisations would never advocate for peoples deaths ... research before you conclude....

Answer 9

They are evil - I find it really offensive that they not only expect women to risk pregnancy every time they have sex, they are not interested in the fact that many faithful married women are infected with AIDS or other STDs by their philandering husbands. And being entirely "celibate" men, they don't have the slightest understanding (or cares) of the problems of having too many children, unwittingly catching sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy problems etc.
I wonder if they use condoms when they are sleeping with their gay lovers.

Answer 10

I was not able to access the link you provided but thank you for sharing this information.
I am saddened and shocked in a way about this crime against humanity...and yet I am not surprised. I belive that some organized religions will do ANYTHING to get their message across and try to create the kind of world they want. People have declared war, murdered thousands, mutliated human bodies, and spread malicious lies all in the name of religion or God. It sucks but it's the truth...I just wish society would smarten up about certain kinds of religion and wake up to the truth.