“Pope Francis, in a recent interview, pointed out that Pope w:Paul VI, in a difficult situation in Africa, “permitted nuns to use contraceptives in cases of rape. ”This use of contraceptives by a group of nuns occurred during an exceptional wartime situation in the Belgian Congo. Although no document has ever been found in the Vatican indicating that permission was actually given by the Pope, these women were given the Pill by their physicians because they appeared to be in imminent danger of sexual assault during the uprisings of 1960.”
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