the catholic church, as part of its campaign against contraception, spreads outright lies about the effectiveness of condoms. it teaches that the aids virus can pass through the rubber of a condom, thus making condoms useless. these lies are spread by its priests and workers in africa, south america etc to often uneducated people for whom the catholic church is one of their only points of contact in terms of education and health. the lies go all the way to the top of the church as a senior official in the vatican confirmed the position when interviewed for a panorama programme on the subject a few months ago. the catholic church is therefore directly responsible the the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of people who might not have contracted the virus if they had used condoms.