Monday, March 29, 2010
"We are seeing HIV decline in eight or nine African countries."
There has been much made of the spread of HIV and AIDS in the nations of Africa in recent years. Perhaps even more has been made by secular media and other progressive commentators in denouncing the Church's opposition to encouraging birth control as the solution to slowing the spread of the disease. But there are others who, while they might disagree with the Church's position on birth control, have at least acknowledged that the decline of HIV infections has happened in some African nations by encouraging abstinence and faithfulness to one partner.
An interview that is worth your time to review is one that appeared in the pages of Christianity Today. Published in March 2009, the interview with Dr. Edward C. Green came on the heels of Pope Benedict's visit to Africa during the same month.
Our very own Columbia magazine published an article in the April 2009 issue by our Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson that further discusses how the media missed Pope Benedict's message on this topic. You can find that article here.
