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Catholic Leaders Say Zika Doesn't Change Ban on Contraception

After a period of saying little, bishops in Latin America are beginning to speak up and reassert the church's opposition to birth control and abortion — positions that in Latin America are unpopular and often disregarded, even among Catholics.

“Contraceptives are not a solution,” said Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, the secretary general of the National Council of Bishops of Brazil, and an auxiliary bishop of Brasília, in an interview. “There is not a single change in the church's position.”

He urged couples to practice chastity or use “natural family planning,” a method in which women monitor their menstrual cycles and abstain from sex when they are fertile.

Yeah, cause the rhythm method is so effective.

And are people still going to defend Christianity as doing more good than harm?