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...Pope Benedict XVI's opposition to condoms, even as a weapon to help combat the spread of AIDS, should surprise no one who knows anything about Catholic Church teachings. The 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, penned by Pope Paul VI, explicitly forbids contraception as denying the Creator's will that humans be fruitful and multiply. In the years since, despite scientific consensus that condoms greatly reduce the risk of contracting the HIV virus, nothing has budged at the Vatican. Any artificial contraception is a sin against God. Full stop...
...only this quietly frank, theologically driven Pontiff knows how. The Spanish government announced it was sending 1 million condoms to Africa just as Benedict was arriving on the AIDS-ravaged continent. By the following evening, top government officials in France, Germany and the Netherlands had all publicly condemned the Pope's statement. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, accompanying Benedict on his weeklong trip to Cameroon and Angola, offered no sign that the Pontiff would back down from his statement. (See pictures of the Pope in France...
...poetic justice - or perhaps fate - then that the photographer's next historic subject would be a man credited with helping to end the Cold War: Pope John Paul II. Giansanti traveled the world with the globetrotting Pontiff and, while he was on the other side of Rome when the attempt was made on the Pope's life, Giansanti was among the photographers at Rebibbia prison when John Paul went to forgive his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca. Giansanti's large portfolio of images of the Polish Pope at work and prayer in the Vatican were integral to TIME when...
...Mona Lisa smile, came across his face just as the light was striking him perfectly. It is the most beautiful photo I ever shot of him." A couple of weeks after John Paul's death, Giansanti's work was on the cover of TIME again with the new pope, Benedict XVI. (See Giansanti's cover of Benedict...
...Leonardo da Vinci airport. His last major project was a series of portraits of people he described as Italy's unsung stars in such fields as law, education and geology. But he will be remembered for two things: the death of a premier and the life of a pope...