SMH Lists Pope’s Achievments
Amongst others:
- the 5 million people who went to the funeral is about the same number of people newly infected with HIV in 2003. The Catholic Church under Pope John Paul II instructed its priests to condemn condom use. It also used its influence in some of the poorest and most AIDS-affected nations to prevent health workers from distributing, or even talking about, condoms.
- The Pope’s anti-contraception stance has contributed to the suffering of the world’s poorest women and children. An abortion is out of the question, he equated it to the Holocaust.
- In addition to failing to protect hundreds of innocent children from predatory priests, and failing to compensate or adequately apologise to those victims, the Vatican recently displayed horrifying callousness by giving a cushy Rome-based job to Cardinal Bernard Law, the former head of the Boston diocese responsible for covering up multiple child sexual assaults over an extensive period.
- He preached that homosexual acts went against the “natural moral law” and warned that to allow children to be adopted by gay couples would be to “do violence” to them.
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August 23, 2005 at 9:07 pm
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