The original interview was in German. The Italian translator changed ‘male prostitutes’ to ‘prostitutes’. Since men having sex with men doesn’t technically involve ‘making babies’, Ratzinger thinks it’s ‘morally responsible’ for them to wear condoms to protect their partners. Forget about all the vulnerable people in developing countries who are infected by their husbands or wives, gee, we better not stop a baby being made during sex, that would be morally BAD. Even babies with HIV who die without growing up have a moral imperative to be born and suffer and die ‘cos the almighty church says so. The Humane Vitae doctrine isn’t about being ‘moral’ or traditional or out-of-date: it’s about upholding and promoting patriarchy and the oppression and the great (unacknowledged, dismissed, mocked) suffering that it causes women which denies them their selfhood, results in much higher birth-rates, much less resources to go around, and a much lower standard of living for all, except the powerful. Like the Pope, who thinks modernizing the doctrine will emasculate his church and his position. Which to me is the epitomy of immorality.

The church desperately needs to be ‘emasculated’ before it can claim any true moral authority.

Definition of emasculation: what happens when a man steals a woman’s stuff and she fights to get it back and wins.

And Hedges wants religions to remain “relevant”? 
  The sooner people get rid of the fantasists in weird clothes, the better.
  End tax breaks for religions now.