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Mar 16, 2007
Quickie Link: Condom debate flares in Brazil before pope visit
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By vanrozenheim
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(Brasilia, Brazil) - Brazilian officials and the country's Roman Catholic hierarchy are exchanging angry words over condom use and sex education just two months before the pope visits the world's largest Catholic nation. Brazilian Cardinal Eugenio Sales criticized government programs promoting condom use. The tensions between Church and state reached a new level last week when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva himself accused the church of hypocrisy. On Sunday, Cardinal Geraldo Majella said on the television program Fantastico, "We cannot agree with condoms because they turn life into a life without responsibility."
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