The title says it all: Pell rides papal bandwagon of death and concludes with, “Safe sex campaigns have strong political backing. But how many good Catholics will die in Africa and the Philippines before they learn that in the 21st century disobeying the Vatican line is a matter of life and death?”
Uncle Di responds:
How many people would contract AIDS (or any venereal disease) if Church teaching were followed? Zero. Yet when actions of those who hold her in contempt boomerang back upon them, she is blamed for the effects of their recklessness. As I’ve said before: other institutions are held responsible for hardships resulting from obedience to their teachings; the Church is held responsible for hardships resulting from defiance of hers…Just curious. I have no way of checking Marr’s claim that Australia waged the world’s most successful war on AIDS, but if his grasp of public health is as reliable as his history of Christian doctrine, one is — how to put it? — ill-advised to accept a clean syringe from his hands.
But how many good Catholics will die in Africa and the Philippines before they learn that in the 21st century disobeying the Vatican line is a matter of life and death?
Funny – reading that line in isolation I agree with it. Disobeying the Vatican line is a matter of life and death, and disobediance generally results in death.
Glad to see you back, Scott.
In fact it is Cuba that has led the world’s most efficient program in repsonse to AIDS.
What Cuba has done is to quarantine all suspected AIDS cases. Cuba of course is not the only country that quarantines sick people. My father was quarantined as a boy for having Scarlet Fever. We also quarantined lepers in the United States to the famous island occupied by Father Damian.
spelling error… my bad.