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AIDS group urges Pope to permit condom use :

[World News] London, April 21 : Officials from the UN AIDS programme have implored the new Pope, Benedict XVI, to consider permitting the use of condoms.

The election of conservative Joseph Ratzinger as Pope has led many to predict that the Roman Catholic Church, which forbids the use of condoms, would not consider lifting the ban to prevent the spread of disease, reports Nature magazine.

Ben Plumley of the UNAIDS office in Geneva, however, said the Church's position was likely to stay "business as usual".

But there is a chance that the Pope could entertain debate on the issue. Ratzinger was a top official in the Vatican when discussion on condom use reopened within the past few years, said Plumley. "He was there when there was a beginning of movement."

And although the Church's teachings on human-embryo research and contraception are governed by dogma, it does not have an official opinion on the use of condoms as a means to prevent disease, according to Maurizio Calipari, a bioethicist at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life.

Ratzinger developed a reputation as an "enforcer" while heading the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the body that succeeded the Roman Inquisition.

In this role, which he held for more than 25 years, he stamped out dissidence within the Church and fired several US theologians who questioned the Church's stance on certain topics.

But some noted that Ratzinger's approach could change now he is Pope.

"Writing as a cardinal as different from acting as Pope," said Marialuisa Lavitrano, an expert on transplants from animals into humans who has advised the Pontifical Academy for Life. "Ratzinger is very intelligent and cultured and will consider all issues carefully," she added.

Plumley said that the Church's consideration of condom use in the context of HIV had been prompted in part by pressure from the Church's African bishops. "We hope that that momentum will be maintained," he said.

However, Timothy Thibodeau, an expert on Church history at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, said the bishops would have a lesser say in the governance of the Church under Ratzinger.