Vatican to issue document on condom rules for Aids sufferers

The Vatican is preparing a document about condom use by those with Aids at Pope Benedict XVI’s request, a Vatican cardinal said.

“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 health care ministry, was quoted as telling Rome daily newspaper La Repubblica.