What!?!?!?!?!?!

NBC Nightly News ran a story tonight that reported that the pope has asked for a study to be done regarding the effect of condoms in the fight against AIDS (although it isn't up on their site yet, which is why you get a Reuters link). They, as you would guess, make it seem that the Pope is going to change Church teaching and allow it. I, as you would also guess, find this hard to believe. It seems that this is all stemming from Cardinal Martini's recent comments on this and other life issues. His view is that contraception is the "lesser evil" compared to death through AIDS. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" How is earthly death a lesser evil than spiritual death? Sure, I would rather spend 80 years here and eternity in torment than 40 years here and eternity in paradise, but hey, who wouldn't?

Wouldn't it be amazing to live in a world that strives for no evil rather than lesser evil?