Pope asks for study on condom use

THE Vatican is preparing a document about condom use by those with AIDS at Pope Benedict XVI’s request.

“Soon the Vatican will issue a document about the use of condoms by persons who have grave diseases, starting with AIDS,” Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who is in charge of the Vatican’s healthcare ministry, told yesterday’s La Repubblica newspaper.

“My department is carefully studying it, along with scientists and theologians entrusted with drawing up a document about the subject that will soon be made known,” the Mexican cardinal said.