Tuesday, March 17, 2009

[Bang head on desk repeatedly]

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa today that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.

He had never directly addressed condom use, but has said the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease. (Globe & Mail)

Ya know, there are just so many things to address in these two short paragraphs, I dunno where to start. The RC church is at the forefront of the battle? How? By encouraging abstinence. In what universe (Benny World!) does that place the Church at the forefront? Groan.

Second, and more trivially, I love that this story was filed from "Aboard the Papal Plane". There's something very Batman about that. Meanwhile, aboard the papal plane....ta da ta da ta da ta da

So Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody. And remember when you leave the bar this evening, all hornied up on green beer, remember to abstain. From coochie coochie, I mean, not from green beer.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You might as well just say, "Eat these Cheesies and you will be cured"

JAW fan

Anonymous said...

Does anyone actually pay any attention to anything the Pope says?? Meanwhile, the church is very quick to excommunicate the doctors and the mother of that poor 9 year old in Brazil who had an abortion after being raped by her step-father. He of course, has not been excommunicated. How can the Church speak with any authority when it behaves in this way??
(OK, off the soapbox now)

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Susie, As I understand it, rape is not an excommunicable offense, whereas getting/ helping/ allowing an abortion is. Hey, I don't make the rules, says the bishop, I just follow 'em. Yes, it's insane. I hope the mom and the doctors find another, better church to belong to.

Anonymous said...

Agree, or better still, give up the whole fairytale altogether and think for themselves!