"Condoms are not the answer to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa," Pope Benedict said Tuesday ..."You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the Pope told reporters. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."
While health workers — including some priests and nuns working with people with AIDS — advocate the use of condoms to curb the spread of disease during sex, the Catholic church promotes fidelity within marriage, chastity and abstinence.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/17/pope-africa-condoms.html
Maybe Pope Benedict should join the priests and nuns who are living and working in Africa. Learn what real life is like. Learn what problems Africans face daily, especially the women. Examine the causes and the possible solutions. Then, he should speak out.
A seven-day visit only benefits the media and people who don't live in Africa.
Afterthought:
How can people, well, Catholics all around the world, revere someone as ignorant as Pope Benedict?
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