教皇承認避孕套可防艾滋

Using condoms may sometimes be justified to stop the spread of AIDS, Pope Benedict says in the new book "Light of the World," Reuters reports. In excerpts published in the Vatican newspaper, the pope cites the use of condoms by prostitutes as "a first step toward moralization," even though condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection." This is the first time the pope has mentioned the possibility in public that condoms can limit the spread of AIDS. The majority of Roman Catholic Church leaders have been saying for decades that condoms are not even part of the solution to fighting AIDS, even though no formal position on this existed in a Vatican document.

據路透社報道，教皇本尼迪克特在新書《世界之光》中稱，使用避孕套有時可有效防止艾滋病的傳播。在梵蒂岡報紙上發表的該書節選中，教皇舉例子稱，妓女使用避孕套是“通向道義的第一步”，但他還指出避孕套“并不是解決艾滋病病毒傳染問題的途徑”。這是教皇在公共場合首次表示避孕套有助于抑制艾滋病的傳播。數十年來，羅馬天主教的大多數領導人堅持稱避孕套根本就不能應對艾滋病，但是梵蒂岡在其官方文件里從未正式提及過類似觀點。

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