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The use of condoms specifically to prevent the spread of AIDS has involved Catholic theologians arguing both sides. [14] [15] [16] Pope Benedict XVI pointed out that when a male prostitute uses a condom "with the intention of reducing the risk of infection, can be a first step in a movement towards a different way, a more human way, of living ...
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ... to usage of condoms in areas of high HIV transmission was substantially criticised by public health officials, anti-AIDS activists, ...
Pope Benedict XVI stated in 2005 that condoms were not a sufficient solution to the AIDS crisis, [18] and then in 2009 claimed that AIDS "cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems." [19] The Moscow Patriarchate gave support to Benedict XVI's position. [20]
In advance of Benedict XVI's 2009 visit to Angola, Becciu defended the pope's rejection of condoms as a means of preventing the spread of AIDS, saying "It's too easy and it's very cheap to say the solution of AIDS is the condom, you don't have the solution there.... So what the Pope is saying is that we must surpass this, because AIDS means ...
It is a meditation on the figure of Joseph that Benedict delivered on Dec. 22, 2013, just a few months after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign. Benedict died on Dec. 31, 2022, at the ...
The global response to the HIV/AIDS crisis was initially led by the US based Center for Disease Control which discovered the first HIV/AIDS case. A 2011 report "AIDS: the Early Years and the CDC's Response", [12] makes the case that it is due to the CDC's rapid and effective approach, and staff, that the virus was even discovered in the first ...
The theology of Pope Benedict XVI, as promulgated during his pontificate, consists mainly of three encyclical letters on love (2005), hope (2007), and "charity in truth" (2009), as well as apostolic documents and various speeches and interviews.
Citing health reasons, Benedict in 2103 became the first pope in six centuries to resign. He promised to remain "hidden to the world" and has been living in a former convent in the Vatican gardens.