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Is the pope saying that use of condoms is not merely permissable, but is a lesser evil that transmission of HIV, and therefore may be the preferred moral action in some circumstances? From an AP account of Fr. Lombardi’s interview today:
Vatican Pope’s condom comments apply to women too
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_pope_condoms
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s comments about condom use being a lesser evil than transmitting HIV also apply to women, the Vatican said Tuesday.
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The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told reporters Tuesday that he asked the pope whether he intended his comments to only apply to male prostitutes. Benedict replied that it really didn’t matter, that the important thing was the person in question took into consideration the life of the other, Lombardi said.
“I personally asked the pope if there was a serious, important problem in the choice of the masculine over the feminine,” Lombardi said. “He told me no. The problem is this … It’s the first step of taking responsibility, of taking into consideration the risk of the life of another with whom you have a relationship.”
But by broadening the condom comments to also apply to women, the pope is saying that condom use in heterosexual relations is the lesser evil than passing HIV onto a partner.
Clearly the Pope is not talking about the condom, in itself. Neither is he making a statement about the effectiveness (or not) of condoms to prevent infection (in fact, he said condoms are not the real solution). Basically, he is talking about the interior will act of the moral agent. It is a step in the right direction (morally speaking) to take steps intended to protect the health of another. I don’t know that we can read much more into it.
“To reduce the whole [of the Pope’s book-long] interview to one phrase extrapolated from the totality of the thought of Benedict XVI would be an offence to the intelligence of the Pope and a gratuitous exploitation of his words”.
But that’s exactly what l’Osservatore Romano encouraged by publishing that one phrase out of context and mistranslated, two days before the book launch. And I agree that it was an offence to the intelligence of the Pope and a gratuitous exploitation of his words.