When Trish pointed out to me that a Spanish Cardinal had made a statement substantially changing the policy on condoms of the Catholic Church in Spain, I was momentarily shocked, and then cynical.
Here’s a bit of the USA Today article on it (I don’t have a link handy for a more adult news source, but hit Google yourself if you want one):
In a substantial shift from traditional policy, the spokesman for the Catholic Church in Spain has said it supports the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
“Condoms have a place in the global prevention of AIDS,” Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, spokesman for the Spanish Bishops Conference, told reporters after a meeting Tuesday with Health Minister Elena Salgado to discuss ways of fighting the disease.
The Catholic Church has repeatedly rebuffed campaigns for it to endorse the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS. The Vatican states that condoms, because they are a form of artificial birth control, cannot be used to help prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
“I wonder,” I said, “how long it will be before the Church authorities slap him back into line?”
Not very long at all, it turns out.
Trish was most amused by the phrase “attack of lucidity” in that article, which we have decided to adopt in our normal conversational lexicon.
