...The Catholic Church in Nicaragua goes back almost 500 years. Cardinal Obando Y Bravo has wielded the power of the church here for over three decades. He's just helped persuade the government to pulp copies of a sex education guide that mentioned abortion and contraception. As a political player, press and cabinet ministers hang on his words, today about Nicaraguan troops in Iraq. The Cardinal told us he couldn't see why it should ever be unsafe for a young girl to deliver children...

...I was telling him [the Pope] that the judge could do more to educate men because I said the judge could really play a very positive role, because many women became pregnant not because they wanted to but because their... you know.. spouses imposed themselves on them. He said: Don't you think that the irresponsible behaviour of men is caused by women?...

...The family's earnings, a dollar a day. Marichu, mother of 9, tells the congresswoman she won't use contraception, she's heard it's dangerous and the Catholic church says it's wrong, much to the dismay of the Catholic congresswoman...

...When I go to the United Nations and watch the Vatican representatives operate right on the floor, I see them going up to Libya, to the Sudan, to Oman, to very often to Muslim countries that have similar conservative views on women and reproduction and wheeling and dealing just like every other government official in the world...

...They aren't 100% useful because they can rupture, they're just made of rubber, they can rupture, and as you see, there is some pores in the condom that the virus can pass through. That is very true. So I seriously side with him that the option he has taken not to be with the wife, he will have to control himself is very good...

Sex and the Holy City - BBC News, 29th September 2003 (via Foreign Correspondent).