[sinkspur]

Passing out condoms will save her life? Hardly.

How do you know? Doing nothing condemns her to death.

How about sweeping cultural changes and a committment to Christ. There is a radical idea.

How about it? What do you tell the women who are waiting for cultural changes to be driven by the very men who are exposing them to the AIDS virus?

You accuse me of being secular, yet anything you offer is of NO HELP to them, whatsoever, and of small comfort to the family the woman will leave behind.

[johnb2004]

Please explain how following Christ's will is of no help?

[Petronski]

The whole premise of your argument is a lie: condoms do not provide 100% protection against the spread of AIDS.

But you want to sell this hypothetical (?) family a lie.

[Clintons a commie]

Y'know, Sinkspur, from a human point of view, I understand why people use condoms and other forms of birth control. I certainly understand the weakness of human nature, especially in regards to the sixth and ninth Commandments.

But, frankly, reading your posts remind me what is wrong with the Church today. You are an ordained deacon, and as such should be a representative of Jesus Christ. You should champion the position of Christ and the Church even when it's difficult. Instead, you look to secular solutions for problems of the soul. People need to hear the truth; eternity is at stake. If they can't hear it from an ordained representive of the Church of Christ, where can they hear it?

As Pius XI said in his encyclical on contraception, a confessor or churchman who tells someone that it's ok to practice contraception is a blind guide leading the blind, and both will fall off a precipice.

Would that we had strong churchmen who represented the truth again, and not wimps who don't even seem to believe that there is a supernatural element to religion at all.