VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican’s office for health care has concluded a study on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS, and a long-awaited report on it is now being examined by the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog, a senior cardinal said Tuesday.
But the prelate gave no indication of the position the study takes or when a final pronouncement might be made.
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health care, told a news conference on infectious diseases that the document was drafted with the help of scientists, theologians and other experts.
‘‘We have prepared a detailed study on condoms from both the scientific and moral points of view and we have passed our study on to the Congregation for the Faith,’’ Barragan said. ‘‘Now the dossier is being studied by that office and then it will go before the pope.’’
Maybe they are OK now…except for on Fridays.