, and much of the world media, have misunderstood the Popes' teaching with regard to sexual education.The objection of the Pope to condoms is not that comdoms are "per se" unable to forestall HIV, but rather that the condom distribution and the mentality created by their use, namely that one can have sex at any time, anywhere, with anybody with impunity as far as sexual dsease is concerned, is a fallacy that valid statistics can abundantly show and prove. Besides, the Pope never proposed that abstinence only is the remedy for the HIV virus. There has to be proper sexual education in the much larger context of morality and spiritual values in understanding the function of sex in human beings.