Caring Catholics?

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:

1. Single people should be celibate.

2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).

3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control is against the will of God.

If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?

People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).

Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.

In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin. With or without a condom:

+ Fornication is still fornication

+ Adultery is still adultery

With love in Christ.

you're asking 2 questions: a million) maximum Catholics do not care once you're a practising Catholic or no longer - culturally we've a tendency to appreciate the privateness of one's walk with Christ (or lack thereof). in case you ask us, you'll locate many are prepared to communicate Christ, yet we don't have a tendency to pound it over human beings. There are some exceptions, as continually. 2) Will this woman care? the in simple terms thanks to carry close is to ask her out. If she says "definite", groovy. If no longer, bypass on.

Again, if people would follow the Catholic church's teaching on abstinence, these deaths would not be occurring.

Isn't it hypocritical for people to even suggest that not using a condom is the church's fault, when they are already behaving in a manner that is clearly against church teaching?

If people are having pre or extra-marital sex, they should be responsible for themselves and their partners and should use condoms to prevent or curb the spread of disease.

It is their own irresponsibility that is killing them, not the teachings of the Catholic church.

I'm not Catholic, but you are putting blame where it does not belong.

You can't honestly believe that the Church is to blame for people having sex with others infected with AIDS.

Think about what you are implying.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuSw....

Let's see......

Your argument is that the Catholic Church should have some blame here?

Okay....how about all the people engaging in sex OUTSIDE of a commited heterosexual relationship?

I mean, is everyone getting it from blood transfusions? (no, I guess not or you wouldn't be asking about condoms...hmmm.)

So....if people have unprotected sex....it's the church's fault..?

They're smart enough to know that the church says "DON'T USE CONDOMS".....but they're not smart enough to know that GOD says "Don't have sex outside of marriage???"

I place the blame squarely upon the shoulders of "modern" society that promotes sexuality and liberal attitudes toward sex.

1) Look at the context and the source:

"a U.N. official said"

2) When I start believing things said by that anti-Catholic humanistic group of morons...just shoot me in the head.

Thank you scotgirl. You speak for all true Christians.

I believe we can thank the pope for the AIDS epidemic in Africa for this very reason.