Reply #284: Here's a couple bits from the BBC... [View All]

[Zhade]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3176982.stm

<SNIP>

In an interview, one of the Vatican's most senior cardinals Alfonso Lopez Trujillo suggested HIV could even pass through condoms.

"The Aids virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom," he says.

The cardinal, who is president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, suggests that governments should urge people not to use condoms.


Another from the BBC...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3844985.stm

<SNIP>

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, made the controversial claim on Panorama's "Sex and the Holy City" programme last year.

He was asked if it was the Vatican's position that the HIV virus can pass through a condom.

Significant risk

"Yes, yes, because this is something which the scientific community accepts, and doctors know what we are saying," he replied.

"You cannot talk about safe sex," he added, insisting that holes in condoms are a significant health risk.