"'It hardly seems pertinent to appeal to the classical principle of tolerance of the lesser evil.... In fact, even when the issue has to do with educational programs promoted by the civil government, one would not be dealing simply with a form of passive toleration but rather with a kind of behavior which would result in at least the facilitation of evil,' Ratzinger wrote."

C'etiat suite a une lettre des eveuqes americains qui voulaient justifier la mise en place d'un programm d'education inlcuant le preservatif comme moyen d'enrayer le sida:

(In 1988, in the document The Many Faces of AIDS, the American bishops, at Bosco's insistence, wrote, "educational efforts, if grounded in the broader moral vision [of sexuality], could include accurate information about prophylactic devices or other practices proposed by some medical experts as potential means of preventing AIDS. We are not promoting the use of prophylactics, but merely providing information that is part of the factual picture." )