Thursday, January 20, 2005
AUSTRALIA REJECTS SPAIN'S ALLEGED TAKE ON CONDOMS
From the Herald Sun:
THE Catholic church in Australia will not join a rebellion against Rome to allow condom use in the fight against AIDS, senior clergy have said.
The Spanish church this week publicly spoke out against the Vatican's opposition to all artificial contraception, saying condoms had a place in the fight against AIDS.
The secretary-general of the Spanish bishops' conference later backtracked, saying the Spanish church still believed artificial contraception to be immoral.
But the heads of the Catholic church in England and Belgium have also recently suggested that condoms could be morally obligatory in some circumstances.
Self-described Catholic AIDS agency the Australian AIDS Fund yesterday called on the church in Australia to follow the rebels' lead.
