Catholic Dissidents Urge Pope to Lift Ban on Birth Control

A newspaper ad by more than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world calls for Pope Benedict XVI to life the church’s ban on birth control.

In the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the open letter to the Pope says the ban by the church on artificial birth control “has had catastrophic effects on the poor and weak of the whole world, putting in danger the lives of women and exposing millions of people to the risk of contracting HIV.”

The Washington-based pro-choice advocacy group Catholics for Choice spearheaded the initiative, which was timed to coincide with the 40^th anniversary of proclamation by Pope Paul VI prohibiting Catholics from using artificial contraception.

Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi responded to the ad, saying, “Policies against AIDs based mainly on the distribution of condoms have largely failed,” adding that the Church has responded to the crisis through other measures. Lombardi called the ads “paid propaganda for the use of contraceptives.”

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