Condoms, AIDS and Catholics.Toronto -- The pressure to recommend condoms to fight AIDS is unrelenting. In a Catholic Register article by Michael Swan, Catholics are told that the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP CCODP Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace ) has: a policy on AIDS (June 2003) of not funding programs which distribute condoms; a willingness to expand its work in Africa to help AIDS patients; the need to sign a new five-year contract with Canada's International Development Agency (CIDA CIDA Canadian International Development Agency CIDA Council for Interior Design Accreditation (Grand Rapids, MI) CIDA Centro de Información Documental de Archivos CiDA Certificate in Digital Applications ) which in the current year provides one third of CCODP's $24 million budget. The article does not comment on the problem. What problem? It is this: CIDA is a feminist-dominated agency run by foreign affairs bureaucracy headed at the moment by Aileen Carroll (an anti-family Catholic Liberal MP from Barrie, ON), which insists on pushing the so-called "reproductive technologies" (abortion, contraception, etc.). According to reporter Swan, Dr. Katherine Rouleau rouleau /rou·leau/ (roo-lo´) pl. rouleaux´ [Fr.] an abnormal group of red blood cells adhering together like a roll of coins. rouleau pl. rouleaux [Fr.] a roll of red blood cells resembling a pile of coins. , acting chief of Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital St. Michael's Hospital may refer to:
in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. principles--Abstinence, Be faithful, and if necessary use Condoms. "If you just eliminate the C, you create a dissonance with the reality," said Rouleau. Swan himself adds: "The teaching authority of the Church has never made an official statement for or against using condoms to prevent disease." Comment Both statements are incorrect. Scientific studies published in Studies in Family Planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. (March 2004) and the British Medical Journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other (April 10, 2004) state that there are no clear examples of a country that has turned back a generalized AIDS epidemic by means of condom promotion. The battle against AIDS in Uganda has had positive results because of the emphasis on abstinence supported by the Church. As for condoms, the Church has condemned the use of contraceptives since the first century. As for its use to fight diseases, St. Paul warned the Romans that those who say "Let us do evil that good will result," are 'justly condemned." To fight AIDS with condoms is like fighting fire with oil. (John B. Shea, M.D.) |
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