A helpful clarifying article on the HIV/AIDS + condom debate

Hugh Henry (LLB, BTheol., BA Phil(Hons), Dip. Ed.) of Australia sent me an article he originally published in the June/July 05 issue of Christian Order.

In sum, his article briefly talks about every major point of debate that I've seen brought up in the numerous commment boxes, blogs and articles I've been reading on this issue - and he wrote this all almost a year before this double-bombshell weekend of Martini/Barragan comments.

It's about 10 pages - but really closer to 4 or 5 when you consider double-spacing and some empty space:

"Real Sex or 'Safe Sex': The Impending Catholic Controversy" (PDF)

And just to give everyone a sense of the scale of this issue now: the most recent round of articles (this time on Cardinal Barraga's comments) have been picked up by over 254 online news sources and counting... so I think it would be a good thing to be moderately well-informed about what the issues are because this is quickly filtering through the secular news circuit.