These claims thrown out so freely about how the Pope was responsible for millions of Aids death by being against the use of condoms for contraception could be a bit suspect.

How is it supposed to work? It's said that the way Aids has spread in anAfrica has been primarily hookers and long-distance lorry drivers and similar. Is the suggestion that they have been refusing to use condoms when they get together, because that would be against their religion, so they go ahead and do the business without using them, because that means it's OK in the eyes of Mother Church?

And there's the accusation that Church workers are at fault for saying that, while condoms may greatly decrease the risk of passing on HIV and AIDS, they aren't 100 per cent safe. I suppose the idea is that people react to that by saying "In that case there's no point in using them". But does that seem very likely?