Today was "Blasphemy Day", a day when, shall we say, organized irreligion encourages people to take their best shots against God. It is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Danish cartoon of Mohammad that caused such a stir a few years ago. Let us make reparation to God for these blasphemies and pray for those involved.
Society and culture: September 2009 Archives
A French epidemiologist, René Ecochard, backs the pope's assessment of the efficacy of condom campaigns in countries with large cases of AIDS. He said that the condom issue has become a "prisoner of ideology" and there is a "lack of realism". "All epidemiologists agree today that the campaigns to distribute [condoms] in countries where the proportion of affected people is very high, do not work," he says. The problem is, condoms fail often enough that in places where 25% of the population are infected, it simply doesn't work.
