[Tantumergo]

"This is so much nonsense to a woman who is expected to be submissive to her husband every time he asks for sex, and she knows he has the AIDS virus. Oh, and she has four other children she has to care for, and stay alive for.

And she can't use a condom to save her life?"

In case it had escaped your attention, women do not use condoms - men do.

If it is a relationship/culture where the man feels free to force himself on his wife against her wishes, then he is not going to be the type who would use a condom.

Ask any prostitute how difficult it is even in "enlightened western societies" to get men to wear condoms - most won't.

[johnb2004]

Good point. I believe the issue here has nothing to do with condoms. It is part of an agenda. Perhaps some of the bishops who promote sin do so because they believe in some type of false compassion, but most have an agenda.