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Leak of Pope?s comments on condoms set off firestorm

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "The Vatican on Sunday rushed to clarify a recent interview by Pope Benedict XVI, in which the pontiff states for the first time that there may be some cases in which the Roman Catholic Church's ban on condoms isn't absolute . . . The pope then added: 'There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants.'" Full text of the Pope's comments is here. Vatican Information Service: Note by Fr. Lombardi concerning a new book on the Pope Jimmy Akin: The Pope Said WHAT about Condoms??? Janet E. Smith: What does the Holy Father really say about condoms in the new book?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).