Do your research. At least three different companies produce and distribute a Vatican-approved condom under license. Its innovative latex-derivative material has been engineered under Church supervision to block the HIV virus while allowing sperm to pass unhindered.
UPDATE: Folks this is indeed one of the oldest jokes ever told. I’m not surprised nobody is laughing, my ability to tell a joke it matched only by my ability to compose rhyming couplets extemporaneously. But I am surprised nobody identified it as such.
raganwald is usually pretty good about it [edit: meaning, of course, that I usually enjoy his posts], but this one was so close to the edge because of all the controversy last year that I thought I may have missed something.
> Its innovative latex-derivative material has been engineered under Church supervision to block the HIV virus while allowing sperm to pass unhindered.
This is either a joke or the stupidest thing I've heard all month.
Anyway, the RCC does allow people to use condoms when the primary purpose is disease control and not contraception.
UPDATE: Folks this is indeed one of the oldest jokes ever told. I’m not surprised nobody is laughing, my ability to tell a joke it matched only by my ability to compose rhyming couplets extemporaneously. But I am surprised nobody identified it as such.