(AP) — From clerics to AIDS activists, Africans applauded Pope Benedict XVI’s suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations to protect partners — a shift that could make a dramatic impact in a continent that is both battling an HIV pandemic and increasingly turning to Catholicism. “I say hurrah for Pope Benedict,” exclaimed Linda-Gail Bekker, chief executive of […]
And you won't believe how long some have been married.
(Loop21.com) — While I, and others, have been critical, of the Vatican’s response (or lack thereof) to the growing sex abuse scandal it has become clear to me that many of the institutional problems that allowed the Catholic Church to fail so many of its followers, are allowing other churches to fail their own. Read […]