More than 80% of French Catholics want church policy on abortion/contraception changed, according to a poll published Sunday by France's Le Journal du Dimanche
Conducted by telephone on Thursday and Friday, after Pope Benedict XVI set off a firestorm of protest by denying the usefulness of condoms in preventing AIDS infection, the poll also found that almost half consider Benedict does a bad job defending the values of Catholicism. A separate poll for Le Parisien found that 57 percent had a bad opinion of Benedict.
An after-the-fact rewrite of the Pope's condom comments for the official record did not add to his stature. Although the change did effectively concede that the weight of expert and general public opinion is not with him.
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