The morality of using a condom

[edwinmvibar]

Greetings.

I would like to ask a question about using the condom as not intrinsically evil inasmuch as I read in passing about the pronouncement of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI implying that using the condom in certain cases is morally acceptable. Is using the condom not tantamount to masturbation? Is it not equivalent to the thing done be Onan, spilling his seed on the ground although it is caught in a thin plastic container but which later on will be thrown on the earth or on the ground? Will using it to free oneself from being contaminated by one’s sexual partner a lesser evil? How about if one to divorce one’s sick partner so as to free one from contamination a lesser evil than using a condom? I have many more things to say but I am ending it now because I do not like to debate any further on this issue, but remember from hereon the admonition of St. Peter, if my memory is right, “Cast your cares upon the Lord, for He cares for you…”

 

[emhansen6019]

The links below gives a pretty decent explanation of the Pope’s comments regarding condom use. From what I understand, the Pope was not condoning the use of condoms in certain situations. He was saying that condom use in some situations, such as male prostitutes, may show the first step in moralization, that the individual is beginning to think of the other, with the hope that they will eventually come realize that the act itself is destructive for both them and the other. Anyway, it is said much better than I can say it in the links below.

ncregister.com/blog/the-pope-said-what-about-condoms?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+%2540The+Daily+Register%2541#When:22:09:44Z

catholicworldreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=220ope-benedict-on-condoms-in-qlight-of-the-worldq&catid=53:cwr2010&Itemid=70

 

[1ke]

I would like to ask a question about using the condom as not intrinsically evil inasmuch as I read in passing about the pronouncement of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI implying that using the condom in certain cases is morally acceptable.

Pope Benedict did no such thing.

Is using the condom not tantamount to masturbation?

Both are sins against the sixth commandment.

Is it not equivalent to the thing done be Onan, spilling his seed on the ground although it is caught in a thin plastic container but which later on will be thrown on the earth or on the ground? Will using it to free oneself from being contaminated by one’s sexual partner a lesser evil? How about if one to divorce one’s sick partner so as to free one from contamination a lesser evil than using a condom? I have many more things to say but I am ending it now because I do not like to debate any further on this issue, but remember from hereon the admonition of St. Peter, if my memory is right, “Cast your cares upon the Lord, for He cares for you…”

You are railing on for no reason. The Pope did not say what you claim.