Pope seems to soften stance on condoms – Financial Times
Aids activists welcomed the pope’s apparent softening of the Vatican’s opposition to the use of condoms but sex workers said his concession, directed at infected prostitutes, demonstrated both his prejudice and stark removal from reality.
In a book-long interview entitled Light of the World to be published on Tuesday, the 83-year-old German pontiff suggests that using condoms could be justified in some cases on moral grounds to prevent infecting others with the virus causing Aids, citing the example of a “male prostitute”.
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