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This week Pope Benedict talks about condoms in Africa and a South American cardinal is in the news re abortion and excommunication.
How and why is it that the church is constantly so sure of itself when it comes to pronouncing on matters dealing with sexuality. And that same church loudly admits that it was not aware of the gravity of the harm that has been done to the victims of clerical child sex abuse.
The behaviour of the Vatican in the most recent legal case in the US is not in anyway edifying.
What is it about the church and sex?
Whether Pope Benedict likes it or not, the world's media will now concentrate on his 'condom' remark. And that's a pity when the man is telling the good news in poverty stricken Africa.
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What is it about the church and sex?
Is it not more appropriate to say What is it about the media and sex?
If one were to fairly measure the amount of time that the Pope, the curia and the hierarchy spend talking about different issues, one would see that they very rarely mention sex.
However, it seems that the little that they do say about sex is the only thing that the media deem worthy of reporting.
The Church's preaching of the Gospel must involve sexual ethics - so it's not an option to simply say nothing... Catch 22... but I think that it's the responsibility of Catholic commentators to squarely challenge the media on their obsession with genital issues.
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