Originally published November 11 2005
Catholic Bishop supports condom use in the fight against AIDS
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to the Chicago Tribune, Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg believes that the church needs to adopt a new theology that embraces strategies to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Catholic bishop who supports the use of condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS contrary to the church's stand has called for new a theology for the pandemic.
Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg told The Chicago Tribune that such a theology would be based on an ethic of "human dignity and justice and human rights instead of just an ethic of sexuality."
He said that abstinence and faithfulness in marriage, the church's answer to HIV/AIDS, "are the only way to be sure you won't get infected.
in a diocese full of desperately poor women with few options beyond prostitution to feed their children, using condoms seems to me a pro-life option in the widest sense."
Bishop Dowling first made his views on condoms public at a United Nations meeting on AIDS in 2001.
"For me, the issue is simply this: How do you preserve and protect life?"
he said in the recent interview, published on November 4.
Pope Benedict XV1 has made clear he supports a continuing ban on the use of condoms, and the South African Bishops Conference calls condoms an "immoral and misguided weapon against the disease."
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