{"id":2092,"date":"2006-05-13T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/the-state-of-the-question.html"},"modified":"2006-05-13T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:04:23","slug":"the-state-of-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/the-state-of-the-question.html","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Liccione offers a good summary of the current state of the discussion re\/AIDS, condoms and married people.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rumors abound that the Pope is preparing to rule on this question. I state in advance my resolution to adhere, with religious submission of mind and heart, to whatever he does rule. But I rather doubt he’s going to take sides in this debate. He will reiterate the Church’s teaching against contraception. That will be good and necessary. He will point out that distributing condoms to all and sundry is not going to solve the problem of sexually transmitted diseases. That will also be good and necessary. He will urge abstinence on people with AIDs, which is only prudent and is certainly the better course. But I doubt he will make the position of the Guerins and Gormallys the definitive teaching of the Church. The arguments need time to grind against one another. And that too will be good for the Church, if only because it will dispel a misimpression that Catholic dissidents love to exploit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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