Obama Picks ‘Dr. Condom’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, May 15, 2009 10:32 AM
Ad for New York's free condom program.
President Barack Obama today appointed Dr. Thomas Frieden as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As New York City’s health commissioner, Frieden organized the distribution of millions of free condoms.
Go here to read an Associated Press report about Frieden’s appointment.
New York City’s bishops issued a scathing denunciation of Freiden’s condom initiative when it... READ MORE
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Condoms, CRS and Dolan
Posted by Daily Blog
Monday, April 06, 2009 12:25 PM
Archbishop Dolan visits Ethiopia. (CNS-John Stipe/CRS)
N.Y. Archbishop Dolan Vows to Stay at Catholic Relief Services, Clean Up AIDS Prevention
By PAUL A. BARRA
REGISTER CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK — Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan becomes archbishop of New York April 15. But he is vowing not to leave behind his job as chairman of Catholic Relief Services for his new job.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian... READ MORE
Filed under archbishop dolan, catholic relief services, condoms
The Lancet Politicizes Science
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, March 30, 2009 3:09 PM
The British medical journal The Lancet weighed in last week on condoms, criticizing Pope Benedict XVI’s recent assertion they have aggravated AIDS transmission in Africa.
In so doing, the journal was guilty of precisely what it accused the Pope of doing — politicizing science by misrepresenting as fact something that contradicts the known empirical evidence.
In an editorial dated March 28,... READ MORE
Filed under aids, benedict xvi, condoms, the lancet
The Case Against Condoms
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:01 AM
A cross with a red ribbon hangs on the chapel door of the African Jesuit AIDS Network in Nairobi, Kenya. (CNS)
This article, by Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, is a fantastic resource for defending what Pope Benedict XVI said last week about the ineffectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS.
Father Czerny knows the subject far more intimately than virtually all of the Pope’s noisy media critics. He deals every day with the issue of helping African AIDS victims and working to prevent AIDS transmission... READ MORE
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Condom Logic Mad Lib!
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:09 AM
wiki art
It’s wrong to make fun of people. But it’s good to make fun of stupid ideas. The idea that promoting condoms will prevent AIDS is not only stupid; it is killing people.
So I made this “mad lib” game you can play at home to ridicule the inanity of condoms promotion.
Tom Hoopes’s Condom Logic Mad Lib
I’ll provide my own ideas in italics, as an extra help.
1. “Oh no,” said... READ MORE
Filed under aids, condoms, weekend commentary
Benedict’s African Triumph
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, March 20, 2009 2:49 PM
Cameroonians wave good-bye with papal flags as Pope Benedict XVI's plane departs today. (CNS/Reuters)
“It’s almost as if the Pope has made two separate visits to Cameroon: the one reported internationally and the one Africans actually experienced.
“In the U.S. and many other parts of the world, coverage has been ‘all condoms, all the time,’ triggered by comments from Benedict aboard the papal plane to the effect that condoms aren’t the right way to fight AIDS. In Africa, meanwhile, the... READ MORE
Filed under africa, benedict xvi, condoms
The African View of Condoms
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:25 AM
Africans at today's papal Mass. (CNS/Reuters)
Western media are claiming the Pope committed a colossal public-relations gaffe Tuesday while flying to Cameroon by rejecting condoms as a means of fighting AIDS.
Africans — who must deal with the tragic reality that the “rubberization” of their societies with condoms has failed dismally in preventing AIDS — don’t agree.
“Pope Benedict XVI’s claim yesterday that condoms actually... READ MORE
Filed under africa, aids, benedict xvi, condoms
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