During an inflight press conference on his way back from Africa last week Pope Francis criticised “fundamentalists” within the Church. Asked about religious fundamentalism in light of the Paris attacks, the Pope responded by saying that “we are all God’s children, we all have the same Father ... we need to live peacefully alongside one another, develop friendships.” He added: “Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics have some – and not some, many – who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.” The Pope said religious fundamentalism was not religion but idolatry, adding that false certainties took the place of faith and love of God and others. “You cannot cancel a whole religion because there is a group or many groups of fundamentalists at certain moments of history,” he said. Pope Francis was asked if he thought the Church “should change its teaching” on the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV. He said an ongoing question for moral theology was whether condoms in that case were an instrument to prevent death or a contraceptive – in which case they would violate Church teaching on openness to life. But, he said, the question was too narrow. People are dying because of a lack of clean water and adequate food. Once the world takes serious steps to solve those problems, then it would be “legitimate to ask whether it is licit” to use condoms to prevent the spread of HIV. Francis also told reporters that “the crowds, the joy, the ability to celebrate even with an empty stomach” were impressions he would take home with him after his six-day African trip.