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Cardinal Pell skewers critics of Pope’s condom comments
April 20, 2009
Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has defended comments made by Pope Benedict on March 17 on AIDS and condom use. “To blame Catholic teaching for the spread of HIV/AIDS requires proof that those following the first essential Christian requirement of living chastely within and before marriage are still dying of AIDS,” writes Cardinal Pell. “Pigs will fly before that argument does.”
Cardinal Pell continues:
Others suggest another variant of the anti-Catholic line, namely that Christians who refuse to obey Catholic teaching against adultery, fornication and homosexual intercourse will still follow Catholic teaching against the use of condoms. Truth can be stranger than fiction, but such an individual would be rare indeed.
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