The Pope said some things that were quite shocking recently but they seemed to be drowned in the mandatory Trump mania he foolishly joined.
He was asked about contraception with respect to the Zika virus.
Francis drew a parallel to the decision taken by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s to approve giving nuns in Belgian Congo artificial contraception to prevent pregnancies because they were being systematically raped.
He was asked about contraception with respect to the Zika virus.
Francis drew a parallel to the decision taken by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s to approve giving nuns in Belgian Congo artificial contraception to prevent pregnancies because they were being systematically raped.
The questioner strangely included abortion in the question but Francis distinguished the two. He said, dismissing the abortion question, "On the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one (Zika), such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear."
Francis has tended to downplay the fraught moral hand-wringing over sexual ethics that preoccupied his predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He has said the church shouldn't be the "obsessed" with such issues.
This was pretty important because it is so public. How it will fit with the Philadelphia bishop's strange and aggressive sexual stand remains to be seen.
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