Here’s a piece from www.chiesa.com regarding the speculation concerning the Church’s position on condom use when one partner is infected with HIV/AIDS.
And the answer is in the negative. Not only does the article make no direct reference to condoms, but it demonstrates that the Church’s activity is directed in an entirely different direction, which can be summed up in the word “chastity.” It maintains that the Church would do nothing but harm if its efforts in combating AIDS “seemed to support promiscuous, excessive, and destructive behavior.”
That this is also Benedict XVI’s thought is beyond all doubt. At the same time as “La Civiltà Cattolica” was publishing its article, the pope referred twice – in addresses on May 11 and 13 – to the encyclical “Humanae Vitae” by Paul VI, describing it as “prophetic and always relevant.”
As for Africa, which is being ravaged by AIDS, it too is among pope Joseph Ratzinger’s foremost thoughts. On a number of occasions, he has expressed his conviction that “the African continent is the Church’s great hope.”
Again, there is but one Truth and the Church is a servant not master of the Truth.
