Actress Betty Grable (1916-1973), during production of Henry Koster’s film, “My Blue Heaven,” 1950.
Pope calls AIDS an ‘ethical problem’
Pope Benedict XVI has called AIDS an “ethical problem” that needs a medical solution, backtracking from his earlier position that blamed condoms for spreading the pandemic.
“The problem of AIDS in particular clearly calls for a medical and a pharmaceutical response,” said a 135-page document that the pontiff unveiled as his church’s vision for Africa on Saturday after arriving a day earlier in the West African nation of Benin.
“This is not enough however. The problem goes deeper. Above all, it is an ethical problem.”Benedict, who was greeted by thousands in the nation considered a Catholic bastion and voodoo heartland, also condemned corruption during the visit, his second on the continent since he was appointed head of the Catholic Church in 2005.
The Catholic Church’s position on AIDS and the use of condoms has long been controversial and carefully scrutinised, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to nearly 70 per cent of the world’s HIV cases.
Benedict’s comments on his first African trip to Cameroon and Angola in 2009 caused a global outcry when he suggested condom distribution had aggravated the AIDS crisis.In a book published last year, however, the 84-year-old pontiff said that condom use is acceptable “in certain cases”, notably to reduce the risk of HIV infection.
(Source: turnofthecentury)
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