{"id":188175,"date":"2010-11-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/21\/vaticanology\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T01:00:00","slug":"vaticanology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/21\/vaticanology\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaticanology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Pope Benedict XVI has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/nov\/21\/pope-benedict-edges-away-ban-condoms\">now issued a tepid statement saying that gay male prostitutes might be able to use condoms<\/a>, under certain special circumstances, because there is no possibility of procreation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vatican today rushed out a &#8220;clarification&#8221; of the pope&#8217;s remarks on the use of condoms, reported in a book to be published this week, insisting he had &#8220;not reformed or changed the [Roman Catholic] church&#8217;s teaching&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the statement made clear that Pope Benedict XVI was prepared to consider the use of condoms in certain, limited circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now we are seeing the walk-back from this, so I am uncertain if this is a real initiative, or one of those cases a game of academic what-if-ing is taken as something more.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s either significant, or it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Pope Benedict XVI has now issued a tepid statement saying that gay male prostitutes might be able to use condoms, under certain special circumstances, because there is no possibility of procreation: The Vatican today rushed out a &#8220;clarification&#8221; of the pope&#8217;s remarks on the use of condoms, reported in a book to be published &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1075,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-sex","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}