Anybody know anything about this?

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(Reuters) - The use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS may be justified in certain cases, Pope Benedict says in a new book that could herald the start of sea change in the Vatican’s attitude to condoms.

In excerpts published in the Vatican newspaper on Saturday ahead of the book’s publication next week, the pope cites the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as “a first step toward moralization” even though condoms are “not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection.”

While some Roman Catholic leaders have spoken in the past about the limited use of condoms in specific cases to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS as a lesser of two evils, this is the first time the pope has mentioned the possibility himself in public.

The Vatican newspaper unexpectedly published significant excerpts from the book on Saturday night, days before extracts were initially due to be made public.

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Actually what the Pope said is not a change in Church teaching at all. The media is totally misconstruing things as usual because in there eyes the Church has to be either unreasonably opposed to condoms or morally justifying it. What he spoke on was that individuals who are not quite morally ready to reject condoms may be taking a step toward developing a more moral prospective by caring enough not to transmit AIDs to someone else. This development is not a complete moral development and does not rationalize using a condom.
 
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