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After decades of violent opposition to the use of any contraception, the Pope the end of the absolute prohibition of the Church to use condoms. He said it was acceptable to a prophylactic treatment to use when the only intent was to "reduce the risk of infection" of AIDS. Then he repeated the strong objections against the Catholic Church to contraception because they believe it interferes with the creation of life, he argued that the use of condoms lives to preserve and avoid the death could be an act responsibly - even outside marriage.

Asked whether "the Catholic Church is fundamentally opposed to the use of condoms, he replied:" It's obviously not see this as a real solution and morality in some cases, the intention. the risk of infection is reduced, it may still seen as a first step towards a different, more human sexuality. He stressed that abstinence was the best policy in fighting the disease, but in some cases, it was better for a condom be used when protecting human life. There may be some justifiable cases, such as when a male prostitute with a condom when it can be ... first bit of the responsibility for the redevelopment of the understanding that not everything is permitted and which can not can not do anything you want. But it's not the way to the horrors of HIV infection to face."

The announcement was a book published by the Vatican this week on the basis of the initial interview face to face, given by a pope.In the interview he admitted he was surprised by the sexual abuse scandal that engulfed the Catholic Church and raised the possibility of the circumstances under which he would consider resigning. The 83-year pope said in courses published exclusively in The Sunday Telegraph today that he is aware of his "power off". However, he seems determined to fight for the place of religion in the public domain. His language in the attack on the use of drugs in the West and its impact on the rest of the world is particularly striking.

He described drugs as an "evil monster" that arises from the main, however, his comments about condoms, which is responsible for the relaxation of the first official boredom and false freedom of the Western world. " attitude of the Church over the issue to call up the Vatican for a more practical approach to the spread of HIV to stop taking. The Pope's decision is designed to prevent people infected their partners, especially in Africa where the disease is more common. However, there will inevitably be seized by the Liberal Catholics in Britain that the church's stance against contraceptives against. Catholic high profile than Cherie Blair has publicly stated that they use birth control. The Pope's comments were surprising because it has caused controversy last year by suggesting that condom use can exacerbate problems of AIDS in Africa.

He described the epidemic on the continent as "a tragedy not only money to be overcome, which can by distributing condoms, which also exacerbated the problems can be overcome. The Vatican has officially changed version of remarks indicating that he just said that condoms "may" exacerbate the problem. There was a growing need for the Church to clarify its position. Theologians suggest that condoms are a contraceptive when they stop death rather than life to avoid. The Pope's comments in the book, the light of the world, probably hailed by Catholic leaders in the West who struggled to his current education system explained. Asked last year as a Catholic couple to use condoms if one of them had AIDS, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, head of the Church in England and Wales, revealed confusion over the issue. "There is obviously a sensitive and of course there are different views on this issue," he said.

Final Catholics may be surprised and dismayed by the comments of the pope when they say that condoms can be used as contraceptives. There was great anticipation for the release of the book, enhanced by the author, Peter Seewald, who said in a teasing remark that it might be "feeling great." For the first time a pope reflects itself in that form," he said. "This is the first personal meeting with a pope in the history of the Church."

The Pope is his most personal account of the distress caused to him by the scandal of sexual abuse, with particular reference to Germany and Ireland.He said: "It was really a bit like the crater of a volcano, where it suddenly a big cloud of dirt was turned, smearing and contaminate everything, so that above all the priesthood suddenly seem a rather unfortunate and every priest was under suspicion that he has one like it. "He did not consider resign over the crisis, but it raises the possibility of a pope to resign if he loses his mental faculties.

When a pope realizes that he is clearly more physically, psychologically and mentally able to perform the duties of his office to handle, he is entitled and, in certain circumstances also forced to resign." He talks about the last time he saw Pope John Paul II, his predecessor spoke of his reluctance to Pope, and spoke of his increasing frailty. "I was so sure that this office was not my calling, but now that God gives me a little peace after years of hurt," he said. While the pope emphasized the importance of dialogue with Islam, "he still religion must" explain his relationship  violence "and suggested that he may intolerant.

The Pope is very critical of the "thirst for happiness" in the West. "I think we have not always a good idea of the strength of the hose and drug consumption that spans the globe," he said. "They kill young people, it destroys families, it leads to violence and danger in the future of all nations. "It's a terrible responsibility of the West: he is using drugs and it creates the fields provided, in the end exhaust and destroyed."

He continues: "A desire of happiness has evolved that can not be satisfied with things as they are."Talking about sex tourism, he said: "The destruction process at work in that special and was born of arrogance and ennui and false freedom of the Western world."