Catholic development agency Progressio has welcomed the Pope’s comments that using condoms might be justified in some circumstances to prevent AIDS.

A Catholic international development charity has welcomed comments about poverty from the leader of the Catholic Church in England & Wales - including an apparently softer line on condoms.

The Church of England has called for greater investment in public health programmes aimed at teenagers, in a submission to UK advertising regulating bodies.

Following protests from across the world at Pope Benedict's pronouncement that condom-use could aggravate the problem of HIV/AIDS, the British government has been challenged on its position.