Disgusting Facebook Campaign Gathering Supporters to Send Condoms to the Holy Father

We must bombard Heaven with prayers for the Holy Father and the appointment of the next Archbishop of Westminster. St Michael, Archangel, pray for the Holy Father, pray for us.

Courtesy of The Telegraph

Organisers have claimed that 60,000 have pledged to send prophylactics to the Pontiff as a result of the call on the social networking site. The Italians (What?????!!! Well, they say keep your enemies close!) behind the initiative hope they will be joined by Facebook groups around the world, including from Britain and the United States: "The campaign is spreading across Europe, with thousands of supporters in France, England, Germany, Austria and Bulgaria."

Benedict XVI was deluged (Remember St Peter didn't drown either!) with criticism after stating that condoms "aggravate" the spread of the disease. The Lancet, Britain's leading medical journal, used an editorial to accuse Benedict of having distorted scientific evidence in order to promote the teachings of the Catholic Church.

"Whether the Pope's error was due to ignorance or a deliberate attempt to manipulate science to support Catholic ideology is unclear," it said. "When any influential person, be it a religious or political leader, makes a false scientific statement that could be devastating to the health of millions of people, they should retract or correct the public record." (The Lancet are an influential journal still promulgating the untruth that condoms are helping anyone but condom companies. Could they consider retracting?)

The Vatican maintains that the use of condoms promotes promiscuity (Yep!) and that fidelity to one partner or total abstinence from sex are the best ways of combating the disease. (Yep!)
The Pope made the remarks last week to journalists on board his official plane as he flew to Cameroon on the first leg of a week-long Africa trip – the first of his papacy – which also took him to Angola.

He was condemned as misinformed and insensitive by Aids groups (Groups who help spread AIDS by encouraging HIV sufferers to have lots of sex using condoms which one day either fail or in a moment of mutually assured destruction decide to forego because sex is more enjoyable without them), health professionals and governments around the world, including the European Union, France and Germany. (Yes, because the EU, health professionals and governments are always right aren't they?)

He was accused of sending a dangerous message which would worsen the Aids pandemic, particularly in Africa, where the virus has taken its heaviest toll. (What is the message of the Aids groups again? Oh, yes, keep having sex even if you're HIV positive!).

Senior Catholics rallied to the Pope's defence this week, with the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, saying the depth of opprobrium directed towards the pontiff had "been prolonged beyond good reason." (Not half!)

I don't know, evil as this Facebook initiative is, it is also very dumb.  

a) What's the Holy Father going to do with the condoms? I mean, he's hardly going to use them, or give them to his friends, is he?

b)  If condoms are so great and effective at stopping AIDS, sending 60,000 condoms to the Holy Father is a waste of condoms that could have saved lives in Africa or been given to 10 year olds here in the UK.