An Analogy for the Pope's comments on Condoms (by Dr Janet Smith)

(a brief extract from Catholic World Report)

An analogy: If someone was going to rob a bank and was determined to use a gun, it would better for that person to use a gun that had no bullets in it.  It would reduce the likelihood of fatal injuries. But it is not the task of the Church to instruct potential bank robbers how to rob banks more safely and certainly not the task of the Church to support programs of providing potential bank robbers with guns that could not use bullets.  Nonetheless, the intent of a bank robber to rob a bank in a way that is safer for the employees and customers of the bank may indicate an element of moral responsibility that could be a step towards eventual understanding of the immorality of bank robbing.

If you read the previous blog I quoted today and then read in line with this analogy, it does become a bit clearer. Sometimes B16 does drop bombs of Truth that we need to work hard to catch and share ;-)