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Pope's Surprise Condoms Remark - A crack has opened in the Church's ban on contraception because of the Aids epidemic, particularly in Africa. Catholic moral theologians have been discussing for years the theory of what the Pope has now openly expressed in terms of accepting the lesser of two evils. This means accepting the fact that condom use by prostitutes does lessen the risk of infection for both men and women. There is some confusion about whether the Pope was referring to female or male prostitutes in his remarks - the word he used in the Italian version is ambiguous, but in English he talks about male prostitutes. News of Pope Benedict's headline-grabbing remarks, first published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, on the acceptability of condom use in certain cases dropped at a completely unexpected moment at the Vatican on Saturday evening. The Pope's remarks caught everyone by surprise. Several thousand people were milling around r...