Pope’s AIDS policy difficult but logical

ASIDE from it being the height of disrespect for the dead, it also marks a new low in the application of logic to suggest that Pope John Paul II was somehow responsible for the death of millions of AIDS victims.

Where is this new medical research that proves AIDS can be contracted by abstinence? Surely another medical term - “best practice” - is what applies best to the church’s admittedly difficult, but logical, policy on AIDS.

The promotion of condoms as best practice against AIDS is akin to a doctor advising a cigar-smoking patient to smoke low-tar cigarettes in order to avoid cancer because he feels giving up smoking is ‘unrealistic.’