Meanwhile in Uganda, where 44% of the people are followers of Francis, only 13% of the people report having used a condom and 7.2% of the population has HIV, over 60,000 Ugandans die each year from AIDS, leaving behind countless (literally no estimate has been dared) numbers of orphans in addition to the thousands of young widows and widowers, often left ill themselves. The Bishops and Francis forbid their followers the use of condoms, and hinder the proper sexual and health education and access to simple, inexpensive protections that have allowed wealthy western countries to greatly reduce the rates of infection and sickness.
So I am not exactly sure how all of that ties in with concern for the poor, the health of the planet and when it comes to threats to the family, there is no treat like a dead parent.
American Francis defenders tell me that his dogmas about contraception do not matter because American Catholics just do as they please and use contraception. They say this is why they are free to focus on how much Francis loves the poor and on his concern for threats to the family.
So I'm not sure about all of this. I'd love it if someone could explain to me why all those orphans and dead parents fit in with concern for families, how imposing rules upon the poor that are casually and very openly rejected by the rich who pay for this imposing of the rules upon the poor fits in with caring for the poor.
For most of my adult life, this paradigm of condom dogma vs health science has been going on. In Africa as a whole each month over 100,000 people die of AIDS, this means that today, October 7, 2015, approximately 3,500 people will die as a result of a virus they might have avoided using knowledge instead of superstition.
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