Before you play Little League you learn how to swing a bat by playing T-ball. Instead of a pitcher winging a ball at you, it's suspended on a little post over home plate while you work at knocking it out of the park.
Coverage of Catholicism mimics the sport all too often as the Church is bashed back into the Stone Age over its vision of sexuality and its teaching on condoms.
The Catholic Church, this message trumpets, has spread the AIDS virus throughout Africa by contradicting the experts and clinging to a lethal ritualism that cripples medical insight.
Except medical insight doesn't agree with the coverage.
A little gig called the AIDS Prevention Research Project from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies decided to take a look at what raises or lowers HIV-infection rates, and found that the darling vision of popular assumption crashes in the face of the evidence. The Church's reviled stance, in contrast, reflects the most effective response to the epidemic.
In a recent interview with NRO, Edward Green, director of the Harvard AIDS project and author of Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries, gave the shocking confirmation: "The pope is correct . . . or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope's comments," referring to the widely publicized comments of Benedict XVI on his way to Africa.
A great synopsis of Benedict's comments is found at LifeSiteNews: make your way over to this article to read more and to catch a glimpse of the on-the-ground reality that the T-ballers have never seen.
Coverage of Catholicism mimics the sport all too often as the Church is bashed back into the Stone Age over its vision of sexuality and its teaching on condoms.
The Catholic Church, this message trumpets, has spread the AIDS virus throughout Africa by contradicting the experts and clinging to a lethal ritualism that cripples medical insight.
Except medical insight doesn't agree with the coverage.
A little gig called the AIDS Prevention Research Project from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies decided to take a look at what raises or lowers HIV-infection rates, and found that the darling vision of popular assumption crashes in the face of the evidence. The Church's reviled stance, in contrast, reflects the most effective response to the epidemic.
In a recent interview with NRO, Edward Green, director of the Harvard AIDS project and author of Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries, gave the shocking confirmation: "The pope is correct . . . or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope's comments," referring to the widely publicized comments of Benedict XVI on his way to Africa.
A great synopsis of Benedict's comments is found at LifeSiteNews: make your way over to this article to read more and to catch a glimpse of the on-the-ground reality that the T-ballers have never seen.
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