A lapsed Catholic first lady accuses the Pope why she...lapsed

There is an article in the Telegraph about Carla Bruni, the first lady of France, and the third wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. She claims that because of the Pope's stand against AIDS in Africa (remember that off-tangent quote by the anti-Catholic Western media against the Pope?), she has allowed her faith to lapse.

Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy said: "I was born Catholic, I was baptised, but in my life I feel profoundly secular.

"I find that the controversy coming from the Pope's message – albeit distorted by the media – is very damaging.

"In Africa it's often Church people who look after sick people. It's astonishing to see the difference between the theory and the reality.

"I think the Church should evolve on this issue. It presents the condom as a contraceptive which, incidentally, it forbids, although it is the only existing protection," she told Femme Actuelle, the women's magazine.

She once said that she is easily "bored with monogamy", and that "love lasts a long time, but burning desire — two to three weeks." and "I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry." (Time Magazine, vol. 170, n. 26/27, 31 December 2007 – 7 January 2008)

Now, would you consider this a statement from a lapse Catholic or from someone who champions condom use because they are simply too promiscuous? And she's blaming the pope's recent statements for her lapse?! Excuses...

You can read her diatribe against the Holy Father by clicking this link: