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Vatican tries to hide Pope’s condom remarks

March 21, 2009

After some bitching about the response to the pope’s absurd remarks about how condom use can increase the spread of HIV, the Vatican edited the interview on their site to make it seem as though he was misinterpreted:
Taken aback by outrage worldwide, the Holy See altered the Pope’s remark yesterday to read that condoms merely [...]

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Vatican backs down, admits attacks justified?

March 19, 2009

The Vatican has decided to backtrack on it’s approval of the behaviour of a Brazilian archbishop who really shined his ass in the case of a nine year old rape victim receiving an abortion.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the excommunication not only of the medical team but also of [...]

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Pope: Condoms contribute to African AIDS Epidemic

March 17, 2009

His Holiness decided to share this gem with the planet:
“You can’t resolve it [the AIDS epidemic in Africa] with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. “On the contrary, it [the use of condoms] increases the problem.”
He also stated that the Roman Catholic Church is at the [...]

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Vatican defends excommunication in Brazil

March 9, 2009

The Vatican has decided to weigh in on the excommunication of the child rape victim’s mother and doctors in Brazil:
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church’s Congregation for [...]

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Irony meters explode worldwide

January 30, 2009

I missed this when it first came out, but a top official at the Vatican had this to say about President Obama getting rid of the global gag rule:
The same day, the secular Milan daily Corriere della Sera published an interview with a top Vatican official lashing out at the new U.S. President. Archbishop Rino [...]

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