Pope Benedict Is Getting Horny Again!

THE VATICAN IS IRRESPONSIBLE WITH ITS HEAD IN THE SAND
The Belgian Assembly apparently does more than toss down a few Stella Artois' between sessions. Today they chastised Pope Benedict XVI and his remarks that condoms do more spread infection of HIV/AIDS. The Vatican shot back in a terse "how dare thee!" criticize the Pope. Various medical groups such as The Lancet called the stance "dangerous and irresponsible" along with France and Germany.

Just a week after Easter, Pope Benedict XVI is trying to control the AIDS epidemic in Africa with the church's doctrine of abstinence. While the Pope's brand of Christianity is flourishing in third-world countries, the exclusion of condoms in this fight continues to erode the support of Catholics in the United States and Europe and is the most vexing doctrine that forces followers and non-followers, alike, to shake their heads in disbelief. It's easy to mock the hypocrisy of a man who took a sacred vow of celibacy and thinks he has the moral credibility to opine on sex.

If you are to sensibly blend Catholicism and the realities of 21st century life, you must see the use of condoms to stem the spread of not only AIDS but other debilitating sexual-transmitted diseases in a lesser of two evils approach. Most would not even call its use much of a sin, but a laudable practice. But this pope talks more about condoms than the exorbitant number of Trojan condom commercials aired after 10 p.m. on the Spike Network.

In 2005, Pope Benedict said, "It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a contraception mentality."

Last month, on a pilgrimage to Africa, he said the use of condoms accelerated the problem of HIV/AIDS on the continent. "You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem."

Here's the irony: the guy who doesn't even have sex thinks they are great, yet the rest of us who do think they are not? Answer that, padre.