The Grand Inquisitor, Prophylaxis, and Prophylactics

"What Benedict actually said is much more interesting than what is being wrongly reported by the media," says Deal W. Hudson, suggesting that "[t]he Holy Father was probing into an imagined individual's moral psychology, rather than rehearsing a new item in the next edition of the Catechism" — On Condoms: More Dostoevsky, Less Catechesis. "The pope is reminding all of us that, regardless of how far we fall or how much we fail, we remain God's children, and our desire for Him can never be extinguished."