The bit in brackets, 'by responsible behaviour', is italicized on the original so I'm assuming it was added later for the purpose of clarification - not that I see anything sinister in that, particularly as it had to be translated from the French. I'm impressed at how cleverly it's written though. Of course, I agree with you about sending condoms to the Pope, it's ridiculously wasteful and childish, but I do think there needs to be at least a counterbalancing resistance to the notion of opposing birth control. It seems to me that in poorer countries with less education than is our privilege, Catholicism and the Papal word is taken much more literally.
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