Actually, no it doesn’t.
If you read that document carefully, it says that there is no evidence the Vatican ‘ever gave permission for the use of contraceptives’ in this scenario (no actual date or place given, either).
Check this out from Church Militant:
Paul VI, a great man, in a difficult situation in Africa, permitted nuns to use contraceptives in cases of rape. … On the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Bd. Paul VI, it was clear.
Theologians agree that incidental historical facts are not a matter of papal infallibility. Cardinal Robert Sarah, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship, shed light on this point.
If the Pope speaks about the economy or politics, it is not his field of expertise. He can offer his vision or opinion, but it’s not dogma. He can err. If he speaks about the environment, the climate, the economy, immigrants, etc., he is working from information that may be correct, or mistaken.
And indeed, serious historians say that the story about Bd. Pope Paul VI and the Congolese nuns is a false one.
They agree there is no paper trail substantiating such a claim of papal approval for contraception. There’s n
o document to prove that any pope ever approved of nuns using contraceptives, whether in the Congo, Bosnia or elsewhere.
What historians do allude to is a 1961 [position paper published in the journal Catholic Studies, long before Paul VI ascended to the See of Peter The paper was written by three theologians asking the hypothetical question whether missionary sisters in danger of being of raped — like those in the Congo of Africa — could morally protect themselves with the use of douches after a rape had occurred. The authors’ answer was in the affirmative.
The position paper was never publicly corrected, which led some to believe it had gained tacit approval by the Vatican. But as noted, the paper was written two years before Abp Giovanni Montini became Pope Paul VI. [Pope St. John XXIII was actually the Roman Pontiff at the time, thus it goes without saying that Paul VI shouldn’t be viewed as the one whose silence meant consent — a principle to which some theologians take
exception.
One of the three theologians who co-authored the 1961 position paper was the late Cdl. Pietro Palazzini. In a 1993 article published in [La Repubblica, Cdl. Palazzini explained the point of the paper.
“What I argued many years ago in Catholic Studies, and I repeat today,” he wrote, “is that women victims of violence, whether nuns or laity, may prevent pregnancy by acting in the hours immediately after the rape, prior to new life being born.” In such cases, he advocated the use of douches to eliminate the rapist’s sperm from the victim’s body.
In the same article, when asked about this very topic, then-Vatican spokesman Msgr. Piero Pennacchini affirmed, "
The Holy See has never published any texts authorizing religious to take contraceptives, even though they run the risk of being raped."
