No condom saves you against AIDS if you have frequent sexual relations with persons you don't know well enough.

Chastity and sex within a marriage is the only answer.

I pray for the Pope and this French youths who defened Church from Communist insults.

The point the pope is missing is that many cannot read or write.Many women live in illiteracy and their husbands come home after spending time with prostitutes. There is no morality in condemning people to die - it is easy fro those in wealthy countries to have choice but many inAfrica do n ot have a choice.

Further sex is not just about procreation it is also about pair bonding and love

to anonyme " to protect from disease like pregnancy" ?! that's a sad formulation...

More seriously, this "action" from the left activists is pure provocation... what need did they have to come after church and attack the believers as if they all agreed with the Pope and were all irresponsible or uneducated ? they clearly targeted the wrong persons. I'm catholic, I listen to the Pope but it doesn't mean I can't think on my own.
We still have our own opinion, the Pope is here for guidance and advice but he is no God... But if some do consider that condoms are not the solution to fight Aids, it doesn't mean they go reckless, being from the "far-right" or "conservatives", then they probably follow abstinence.

What I want to say is that we are one church yes but we are individuals first and to blame catholics for the Pope's words is pointless. Thanks for your help but we can think on our own and we do not need you to "open our eyes".

The pope has demonstrated massive irresponsibility with his words. Not only do condoms protect against diseases like pregnancy, AIDS, and countless others, they help protect those that matter most to our society - our future. Abstinence does NOTHING but cloud the true issue: Education.

Don't hide under the sand.

The catholic church doesn't force anyone to use or not to use condoms. People are free to do whatever they want. The church only teaches that using condoms and other contraceptives violates human dignity. Agree or not we cannot demand that the catholic pope will promote using of condoms. If he did so he would encourage people to activities which break church's teaching. I agree with Benedict XVI when he says that condoms do not solve the problem of AIDS - they temporarily prevent the disease form spreading, but in longer perspective they strengthen a way of life which is not only immoral from catholic point of view but also carries a risk of getting the virus.