Oy vey, Pope Benny!

Gotta give props to that guy. Major, major cajones.

In the midst of an AIDS epidemic, he is standing by the long-standing...stance.. of the Catholic church that denounces the use of artificial birth control, in this case condoms.

Yeah, maybe he's irrelevant to the majority of Americans in this day and age. Maybe he's just the voice of a different, out-of-touch generation. Maybe, in the end, no one's gonna listen to him anyway. Yeah, the Pope is the Earthly head of the Catholic Church, but its people who make their own decisions in the end.

But I respect someone who is willing to take an unrealistic but not unimaginable stance at a time where people are willing to compromise the core beliefs of their religion to please people who don't even follow it.

Once core foundations are changed and removed, then any religion risks losing their followers and becoming something it wasn't meant to be.

And in the end, the Pope can't do anything or force anything on anyone. Really. He's just the head priest who takes a stance on something and people can either choose to listen or not.

So whatever. People just need to calm down.