{"id":7540,"date":"2010-11-20T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-aids\/"},"modified":"2010-11-20T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:46:09","slug":"pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope approves use of condoms in fight against AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/the-pope\/8148899\/Pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-Aids.html'>Pope approves use of condoms in fight against AIDS<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Wow, I didn&rsquo;t think that I&rsquo;d ever see the day where I heard this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Pope Benedict] will say that it is acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention is to &ldquo;reduce the risk of infection&rdquo; from AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>While he will restate the Catholic Church&rsquo;s staunch objections to contraception because it believes it interferes with the creation of life, he will argue that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death can be a responsible act \u2013 even outside marriage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope approves use of condoms in fight against AIDS Wow, I didn&rsquo;t think that I&rsquo;d ever see the day where I heard this: [Pope Benedict] will say that it is acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention is to &ldquo;reduce the risk of infection&rdquo; from AIDS. While he will restate the Catholic Church&rsquo;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-aids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pope approves use of condoms in fight against AIDS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}