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Vatican 'health ministry' completes report on condoms for pope
Tue Nov 21, 12:44 PM ET
VATICAN CITY (AFP)
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, head of the Pontifical Council for Health, said the 100-page document gathers all of the Roman Catholic Church's positions on the subject, from the most liberal to the most conservative.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will study the document and convey its opinion to the pope to help him make a final decision on whether to maintain or modify the Church's absolute ban on using condoms.
The Vatican is opposed to all forms of contraception besides abstinence -- total or temporary -- and rejects condom use even to prevent the spread of diseases such as
HIV-AIDS.
Some prelates argue that condom use could be condoned in certain specific cases such as for sex between a married couple in which one partner has been contaminated with the HIV virus through a blood transfusion.
Cardinal Barragan announced in April that Benedict had requested "a study on the specific problem of the use of the condom by people contaminated with AIDS and those suffering from an infectious disease."
At a news conference on Tuesday, Barragan presented the program of a three-day international conference on "pastoral aspects of treating infectious diseases" opening Thursday at the Vatican.
Tue Nov 21, 12:44 PM ET
VATICAN CITY (AFP)
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, head of the Pontifical Council for Health, said the 100-page document gathers all of the Roman Catholic Church's positions on the subject, from the most liberal to the most conservative.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will study the document and convey its opinion to the pope to help him make a final decision on whether to maintain or modify the Church's absolute ban on using condoms.
The Vatican is opposed to all forms of contraception besides abstinence -- total or temporary -- and rejects condom use even to prevent the spread of diseases such as
HIV-AIDS.
Some prelates argue that condom use could be condoned in certain specific cases such as for sex between a married couple in which one partner has been contaminated with the HIV virus through a blood transfusion.
Cardinal Barragan announced in April that Benedict had requested "a study on the specific problem of the use of the condom by people contaminated with AIDS and those suffering from an infectious disease."
At a news conference on Tuesday, Barragan presented the program of a three-day international conference on "pastoral aspects of treating infectious diseases" opening Thursday at the Vatican.
OK, dakle vremena se mijenjaju - nisam li vam to već nagovijestio? Neovisno o tome hoće li ovaj papa prihvatiti prijedloge, službeni stav katoličke crkve po pitanju kondoma će se uskoro promijeniti. Prvo će dozvoliti korištenje kondoma u braku, kad je jedan od partnera zaražen AIDS - om. Postojeća crkvena doktrina bila je silno nepravedna (najblaže rečeno) prema oboljelima, posebno u Africi. Naravno, nema nikakve logike da se slično ne dozvoli parovima koji imaju problem s hepatitisom C, ili uostalom bilo kojim drugim tipom hepatitisa. A što je sa sifilisom? Ako želi biti razumna i poštena, crkva će morati dozvoliti svima oboljelima od spolno prenosivih bolesti da se koriste prezervativima, morat će pronaći način da to opravda i spasi obraz (npr. načelo izbjegavanja većeg zla), pošto se predugo već mimo svakog morala i ukusa miješala u stvari koje je se ne tiču. Pošteno govoreći, ona je zadržala popularnost samo stoga što su se njeni vjernici naučili misliti jedno, a raditi drugo. Ako bismo današnju katoličku crkvu i njeno vodstvo usporedili s nekom sličnom organizacijom, začudo, nameće nam se usporedba s komunističkom partijom i njenim centralnim komitetom. Ne u doba revolucije i odricanja, kada padaju glave, a vojnike strijeljaju radi jedne šljive, u toj fazi partija više nalikuje fundamentalističkoj sljedbi nekog karizmatičnog lidera (prošla je katolička crkva i tu fazu, o da, ali davno), nego desetljećima kasnije, kada izgine, izumre ili ostari generacija koja je revoluciju izvela i do kraja držala revolver na natkaslu, a kormilo preuzmu mlitavi aparatčiki bez vizije i birokracija. Kad borbu za ideale zamijene otimanja za privilegije. Ali nije ni to loše, koji li je ono češki disident pisao da je idealno stanje demokracije u Čehoslovačkoj bilo razdoblje raspadanja partije polovinom šezdesetih, kada ništa nije bilo dozvoljeno, ali također ni zabranjeno? Jedini je problem što, jebiga, nakon toga obično dođu tenkovi. Ili novi lideri i novi jebeni proroci, kojima je ispod časti učiti od dekadentnih predaka, i krvavo se kolo ponovo zavrti.
Hej, al ne možete reći da vam agencijski naslov ne zvuči dobro: "Vatican 'health ministry' completes report on condoms for pope". Condoms for pope?
Post je objavljen 26.11.2006. u 11:25 sati.