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While the Vatican is conducting a study on whether it can condone the use of condoms by married couples in order to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, officials said Tuesday that there is no impending pronouncement.
Last weekend, an Italian newspaper reported that Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, head of the Vatican's office for health care, said his office would soon release a document on married couples, condoms and HIV/AIDS, the Associated Press reported.
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However, Barragan said Tuesday that his office was merely studying the issue at the request of the pope.
"We are conducting a very profound scientific, technical and moral study" that will be presented to the pope, he told Vatican Radio.
In recent years, the Vatican has come under increasing criticism for its refusal to approve the use of condoms by married couples to prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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