An official of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference, Mgsr Angelo Amato (pictured greeting Il Papa), has said that change of Vatican policy on condoms is "not on (the) agenda", France 24 reports."Whether the use of prophylactics is licit ... does not seem to me to be on the agenda," Mgsr Amato told Avvenire, the journal of the Italian Bishops' Conference published on Sunday.The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is at present looking into the issue.
However, Mgsr Amato said the congregation was studying "the hypothesis of reviewing" bioethical questions raised in the 1987 document Donum Vitae.
The aim is not "to abolish the preceding document, but to confront the various bioethical and biotechnological questions which present themselves today, which at the time were unthinkable," he said.
Amato said "new challenges" have arisen "such as an embryo which is considered a biological product rather than a human being," while according to the Catholic Church, "respect due to the human embryo is a non-negotiable anthropological principle."
He could not say when the dossier would be submitted to the Pope.
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