Dogmas instead of compassion

The left-liberal Italian daily La Repubblica harshly criticises the Pope's statements. "Certainly the Pope is right to say that the Aids epidemic can't be stopped by distributing condoms and calling for people who have Aids to be given free medical treatment. But to add that condoms were only aggravating the problem seems rather questionable. Are they not the mechanical barrier that protect women and hinder the spread of Aids? … The cruel, inhuman severity of a Church that punishes a Brazilian girl and the doctors who saved her life by performing an abortion with excommunication is not a pretty example of the Church's compassion for human suffering. The soul of a Brazilian girl and a woman from Cameroon are less important for the Church than that of an anti-Semitic bishop and Holocaust denier."

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