When Pope Benedict XVI commented this month that condom distribution isn’t helping, and may be worsening, the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, he set off a firestorm of protest. Most non-Catholic commentary has been highly critical of the pope. A cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer, reprinted in The Post, showed the pope somewhat ghoulishly praising a throng of sick and dying Africans: “Blessed are the sick, for they have not used condoms.”
Yet, in truth, current empirical evidence supports him….
I bet that I am not the only serviceman who remembers the boot camp lecture about condoms. Abstinence was the best policy. It seems the rubber shields had a lot of microscopic holes big enough for living things to pass through; particularly all kinds of virus.