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"Pan-sexual culture" undermines AIDS efforts, Vatican says
Vatican, Dec. 01 (CNA/CWNews.com) - The Vatican released today a message by Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, on the occasion of the World Day against AIDS.
Cardinal Barragan reaffirmed that “the best cure is prevention to avoid infection by HIV/AIDS, which we should remember is transmitted through the triple route of blood, transmission from mother to child, and sexual contact,” and stressed that sexual transmission remains the most important pathway through which the disease continues to spread. “This is greatly fostered by a kind of pan-sexual culture that devalues sexuality, reducing it to mere pleasure without any further meaning," the statement read. "Radical prevention in this field must come from a correct conception and practice of sexuality, where sexual activity is understood in its deep meaning as a total and absolute expression of the fecund giving of love,” he said.
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Vatican, Dec. 01 (CNA/CWNews.com) - The Vatican released today a message by Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, on the occasion of the World Day against AIDS.
Cardinal Barragan reaffirmed that “the best cure is prevention to avoid infection by HIV/AIDS, which we should remember is transmitted through the triple route of blood, transmission from mother to child, and sexual contact,” and stressed that sexual transmission remains the most important pathway through which the disease continues to spread. “This is greatly fostered by a kind of pan-sexual culture that devalues sexuality, reducing it to mere pleasure without any further meaning," the statement read. "Radical prevention in this field must come from a correct conception and practice of sexuality, where sexual activity is understood in its deep meaning as a total and absolute expression of the fecund giving of love,” he said.
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