{"id":6866,"date":"2004-05-17T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T23:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/05\/17\/unaids-official-attempts-to-distort-official-catholic-position-on-condoms\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T18:23:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T23:23:41","slug":"unaids-official-attempts-to-distort-official-catholic-position-on-condoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/05\/unaids-official-attempts-to-distort-official-catholic-position-on-condoms\/","title":{"rendered":"UNAIDS Official Attempts to Distort Official Catholic Position on Condoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">GENEVA, May 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; A UN official in charge of AIDS prevention has denied that the Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms. Taking the dissenting views of a small number of commentators as representative of official Catholic policy, he said that there is &#8220;hot debate&#8221; in the Vatican over the use of condoms. UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot, said that he had been assured by Vatican sources that the Church had not made a definitive statement. &#8220;What I was told repeatedly is that the church has no competence on the quality of materials including the quality of latex,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Catholic teaching on the dignity of human sexuality is clearly laid out in dozens of magisterial documents, some dating as far back as the early centuries of the Christian era. The Catholic Church has never made claims to be expert in chemical engineering or latex manufacture, it does, however claim competence in moral theology which is the central issue in its critique of the use of condoms for AIDS prevention. Catholic officials make use of scientific experts in a multitude of areas in forming their public statements. Moreover, the Catholic Church has always opposed the use of barrier methods of birth regulation, regardless of the material of which they are made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Well that is a misconception or should it be missed-conception?  Actually few people realize this, but that the Catholic Church does not say that men can never wear a condom.  In fact you can wear one any time you please, except when having sex.  Is that really too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, May 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; A UN official in charge of AIDS prevention has denied that the Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms. Taking the dissenting views of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}