Pff… I am sorry.
I am shocked too! …(But not as you, as presumed… )
I have not study extensively those doctrine, so i will go on simplifications, and approximation.
1/ we don’t need to trust National Catholic Reporter, which is very liberal on doctrine, for Catholic orthodoxy on sexual/ procreation topics
2/Pope VI never said clearly that religious woman who faces rapes in war context can use contraceptives (the pill). It’s an urban legend. And a little more complicated.
This stence is older, “conceptualized” in 1961 by three theologians, and the Congregation of The Saint-Office (the old Congreagation for Doctrine of the Faith) never contradict it. And no pope after. So it’s become a “commom” and learned doctrine of Catholic theology. According to this doctrine, abortion is always evil vs contraception…
3/The Lombardi stance go far more than this stance!! Zika is not a rape!
4/I believe that Lombardi stance is far more than Pope Francis. He spoke of that preventing pregnancy is not an absolute evil. And not the same thing as abortion. So I don’t think that we can interpret this as contraception. We are free to heard what we want to heard. (then, It is just an “interview”. Not an encyclical.)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...on_cfaith_doc_20101221_luce-del-mondo_en.html
Paul VI et les religieuses violées au Congo (sorry it’s in French, but It is my main source).
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-contraception-zika_us_56c5fd29e4b0c3c5505405f7
Always searching exemptions, and give some exemples can be confusing for faithfull people, more for them who struggle in their life. And leads more voices to a changeand liberate the doctrine, because it can lead to inconsistency