{"id":1969,"date":"2010-02-05T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/02\/vatican-drops-condoms-aids-stu.php"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:00:47","slug":"vatican-drops-condoms-aids-stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/02\/vatican-drops-condoms-aids-stu","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Drops Condoms-AIDS Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican office responsible for health care matters said Friday (Feb. 5) that it had stopped work on a long-expected study of condoms and AIDS, and that &#8220;nothing serious&#8221; had been done on the project.<br \/>\n&#8220;There was a project, there was, but nothing serious was delivered,&#8221;<br \/>\nsaid Bishop Jose Luis Redrado Marchite, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, at a Vatican press conference.<br \/>\nCardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, former head of the health care council, said in 2006 that his staff was preparing a &#8220;profound study,&#8221; requested by Pope Benedict XVI, that would consider &#8220;both the scientific and technical aspects linked to the condom, as well as the moral implications in all their amplitude.&#8221;<br \/>\nCatholic teaching forbids the use of condoms as a form of contraception, but no pope has definitively addressed the morality of their use to prevent AIDS and other infectious diseases.<br \/>\nBenedict, however, provoked an international furor last March when he told reporters on a flight to Africa that &#8220;one cannot overcome the problems (of AIDS) with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem.&#8221;<br \/>\nLozano retired as head of the health care council last April.<br \/>\nRedrado did not rule out further study of the condom question.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is in the air, a study is thought about and talked about,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but we are not on that track at this time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8212; Francis X. Rocca<br \/>\nCopyright 2010 Religion News Service.  All rights reserved.  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