Church to the AID(s)?

For ages, the Church had always been a strong advocate of science - by being on the wrong side of the arguments, it promotes the correct side!! Ingenious isn't it? From Galileo to the current day condom usage, they have always been magnanimous enough to take the blame for pigheaded dumbness.

"....The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk....". I may be extremely naïve, but isn't there more sense in using _something_ rather than nothing? Despite thousands of dumb doctors around the world certifying the usage of condoms as an effective way of containing AIDS, the Vatican is competent enough to rule out all their claims, I suppose.