VATICAN, November 21, 1910 ( ACI) .- In the book-length interview with journalist Peter Sewald entitled "Light World ", which will be presented at the Vatican on Tuesday November 23, Pope Benedict XVI said that the condom is not true or appropriate mode against AIDS , but the humanization of sexuality.
In an excerpt of the book is subtitled "The Pope, the Church and the signs of the times," released yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano and misrepresented by various media as the "acceptance of condoms by the Pope, the Pope reiterated what he said on his trip to Africa in 2009: the path to defeat AIDS is not the condom but humanization of sexuality .
Benedict says that "focusing on just the prophylactic means trivializing sexuality and this represents a dangerous trivialization why so many people on sexuality see nothing but the expression of his love, but a kind of drug, which are supplied themselves. "
therefore, says, "also a fight against the trivialization of sexuality is much of the effort for the sexuality is positively valued and can exercise a positive effect on human beings as a whole. "
Pope then used the example of a prostitute who used a condom and presents it as a first step towards moralizing. In this case, he says, this application could be considered as the first step of responsibility to "develop new awareness of the fact that not everything is permitted and you can not do everything you want. However, this is not the true and proper way to beat infection HIV. is truly necessary for humanization of sexuality .
Reiterates Church's position
I said by Benedict XVI in this book reinforces what has been said by him on his trip to Cameroon and Angola in 2009, which earned him harsh criticism and was released by a section of the press so biased. The Holy Father explained that "can not overcome AIDS problem only with advertising slogans. If there is no profit, if Africans do not help, can not solve the scourge of condoms On the contrary, the risk taken is to increase the problem. "
In the interview he gave during the flight to Cameroon in March 2009 when asked about the work of the Church in the fight against AIDS, quite extensive in the world particularly in Africa, the Pope said that the way to confront this disease can only be found in double effort: the first is a humanization of sexuality , ie a spiritual renewal human and carry a new way of behaving with each other. "
The second step proposed for this task is" true friendship and above all the suffering, the availability, also sacrifices, personal sacrifices to be with the suffering ".
