A Roman Catholic Dilemma

flogen

While many forms of christianity have embraced contraception, the Roman Catholic church has not, still seeing it as a sin as you are "spilling" your seed. I understand that in a spiritual sense (everybody sing "every sperm is sacred"!), but in a practical sense I do not. Hopefully within this thread I will understand it better.

Here's a dilemma (perhaps covered before, if so please lock/delete/ignore). Some time ago the Catholic Church missionaries in Africa were accused of advising people that it was better to spread AIDS than to commit the sin of wearing a condom. I'm not certain weither this was proved true or false, but for those whom are fully committed to the catholic church, it does pose a moral dilemma.
In such a case, would it be better to wear a condom and save a life, or to follow the church and infect someone with a horrible illness?

I would say that abstinance is the key here, but on that note, is it practical to assume that a couple, especially a married couple should not have sex under any circumstances? And to jump to the conclusion that it was going to happen one way or another, where would you fall?

Some may see this as a stupid question, apologies if you do, I just wonder what choices would be made by people if sex was certain to take place.

flogen

JustHalf

I don't have time to go into this now, but I've read some of the Catholic statements on using abstinence as a weapon against AIDS. The term "abstinence" is used in a way that supports sex in marriage.