WHY WE OPPOSE THE USE OF CONDOM - CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Secretary-General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Fr.
Ralph Madu, made this clarification in a response to an enquiry by
Punch on Sunday.
"The Catholic Church believes that modern means, including the use of
condoms is morally bad because it impedes normal procreation. You can
meet with your wife when you do not want children and those periods
when the woman is not fertile instead of having to destroy the sperm
and all other forms of artificial prevention.
"They are very artificial means and they do not really give the moral
lesson that borders around the use of the sexual organs.
"The one that gives you the opportunity to exercise your sexual urge
without the consequencesis the natural method and the church says you
should go for the natural means."
According to him, the excuse that it reduces the spread of HIV/AIDS
remains invalid and untenable, adding HIV/AIDS is a disease that is
prevalent among young people.
Madu added, "When you are talking about condom among young people, you
are also talking about promiscuity. People have adduced arguments in
case of people with HIV/AIDS and especially couples who do not want
children. The use of condom and other modern means are being
bastardised among young young people because they will resort to the
use of condom so that they can have sex freely without impregnating
the woman or gettingpregnant.
"Those are various artificial means and the church is strongly against
them. Instead, the church endorsed the natural method of copulation."