God, no: Catholic church opposes ‘Good Catholics Use Condoms’ advert (LOOK)

by Rachel Ogbu

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Kenya’s Roman Catholic Church has criticised the US-based Catholics for Choice group “as planting “negative attitudes” that could destroy the nation’s “moral fibre”, after they released a billboard and newspaper ad promoting condom use.

Cardinal John Njue, chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the church supported pro-life, not pro-choice; calling for the advertisements to be barred

“Catholics for Choice are not Catholics in the sense of the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church,” he said in a statement.

“Remember if the moral fibre of any nation is destroyed, then you have destroyed the nation as well.”

But the Catholics for Choice have defended their campaign saying it could stop the spread of HIV with about 1.6 million people living with the virus in Kenya.

According to reports, Catholics for Choice has said its ‘condoms4life’ campaign shows ‘an authentically Catholic message’.

Ads have been running in newspapers and billboards around Kenya showing a smiling couple with the slogan: ‘Good Catholics Use Condoms’.

“We believe in God. We believe that sex is sacred. We believe in caring for each other. We believe in using condoms,” the advert reads.

The Punch reports:

Catholics are heavily divided over the use of condoms.

A television advert urging married women to use condoms was recently pulled from Kenyan television following an outcry from religious groups.

Catholics for Choice said it launched its campaign after pressure from religious groups forced the Kenyan government to drop an advertisement in March promoting condom use in marriage.

“The campaign is vital because the bishops’ recent activities are not representative of Catholic teachings or beliefs. Catholics do support the use of condoms, and they do use them to protect themselves and their partners,” campaign co-ordinator Jon O’Brien said in a statement last month.

The Kenyan bishops’ anti-condom remarks contradict the view of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI who stated in 2010 that “where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection” condoms can be “a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality”, Mr O’Brien said.

Pope Francis was chosen as the head of Catholic Church last month after Pope Benedict stepped down, saying he was too frail to carry on in the job.

The new pope has not commented about the use of condoms since his elevation to the papacy.

 

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