smirk's man Pope ratty is vexed over condoms and love

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/01/news/pope.php

The Vatican wrestles with a fraught topic


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The dilemma, as it has been for years, is AIDS. And in recent days, church officials confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI had requested a report on whether it might be acceptable for Catholics to use condoms in one narrow circumstance: to protect life inside a marriage when one partner is infected with the HIV virus or is sick with AIDS.

Whatever the pope ultimately decides, church officials and other experts broadly agree that it is remarkable that so sensitive an issue is being taken up at all. But they agree it is logical on many fronts, and particularly significant from this pope, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, served as Pope John Paul II's strict enforcer of church doctrine.

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The news broke just after Benedict celebrated his first anniversary as pope, after a relatively quiet year with few concrete papal acts, a period when liberal and conservative Catholics alike say he has emphasized less outspoken doctrinal rigidity in favor of a more low-key and pastoral style. He has also been concerned with the issue of love, devoting his first encyclical to it, and specifically love between a man and a woman inside of marriage.

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wish he would give some concern to global warming - could someone clue him in? there are more and more newly poor.

Jesus, the conservatives must be so confused! How do they keep it all their hatreds straight?

BTW, I think it's pretty funny that they think condoms are "so sensitive an issue." Especially the ribbed ones, right, Popey? LOL!

when they end up in the condom instead of the vagina?

arent sperms "little men"?

DAD:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed, but
I've never been one of them.

I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A Catholic the moment Dad came,

Because

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

GIRL:
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

MUM:
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.

MEN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
WOMEN:
If a sperm is wasted,...
CHILDREN:
...God get quite irate.

PRIEST:
Every sperm is sacred.
BRIDE and GROOM:
Every sperm is good.
NANNIES:
Every sperm is needed...
CARDINALS:
...In your neighbourhood!

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is useful.
Every sperm is fine.
FUNERAL CORTEGE:
God needs everybody's.
MOURNER #1:
Mine!
MOURNER #2:
And mine!
CORPSE:
And mine!

NUN:
Let the Pagan spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

EVERYONE:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaaate!

I'll be humming that song now all day!

And the pope is an expert about this in what way?

I am highly skeptical of anything "good" that he might endorse...

I am wondering where are the secret purges ... and what GW was promising him.