In a series of interviews to appear in a book published this week,
Pope Benedict XVI says for the first time that while the
use of condoms should not be seen as a “moral solution”, it could be justified in stopping the spread of AIDS.
But the Vatican moved Sunday to counter campaigners’
claims of a U-turn in Church policy, emphasising in a statement that condom use was acceptable only in highly “exceptional” cases, AP reports.
Our take: If you don’t play the game,
you don’t get to set the rules. What people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is none of the Pope’s — or the Catholic Church’s — business.