Heterosexuals can also use condoms, clarifies Pope

POPE Benedict’s landmark acknowledgement that the use of condoms is sometimes morally justifiable to stop Aids is valid not only for gay male prostitutes but for heterosexuals and transsexuals too, the Vatican said yesterday.

The clarification, the latest step in what is already seen as a significant shift in the Catholic Church policy, came at a news conference presenting the Pope’s new book: Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Sign of the Times.

In the book, a long interview with German Catholic journalist Peter Seewald, the Pope used the example that a male prostitute would be justified using a condom to avoid transmitting the killer disease.