Wednesday, April 13, 2005

A dead leader who let millions live in anguish

Pope John Paul II is remembered as being compassionate, but in many ways he was anything but. For many his legacy is one of great suffering.

There are 40 million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, and another 15 million children are AIDS orphans. And yet the Catholic Church, under Pope John Paul II, instructed its priests to condemn condom use.

Worse, it used its considerable influence in some of the poorest and most AIDS-affected nations to prevent health workers from distributing, or even talking about, condoms.

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