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Sex, Condoms, Stemcells: Leading Challenges that Face New Pope

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

PARIS (AFP) - Of the many problems facing Pope Benedict XVI as leader of the world's more than one billion Catholics, perhaps the biggest and most intractable headache is that of bioethics.

The new pontiff faces a clamour from within and without the church for an easing of iron-clad papal bans on fertility control, the use of condoms against HIV and restrictions on stemcell research.

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