"For the rising Church as well as for the subsequent Church, since the start it has been fundamental to defend the family as the core of every social order: we can see, even today, that the fight of the Church is focussed on this point". This was written by the Pope, who, in the last part of the fourth chapter of his new book, in quoting rabbi Jacob Neusner, who "very firmly criticises the dissolution of the family", recalls that "Jesus does not mean to abolish the family or the purpose of the Sabbath according to the Creation, but must establish a new, broader scope for both". "Thanks to Jesus, in particular, the real legal and social forms, the political systems, are no longer literally established as a sacred right for all times and therefore for all people", but left "to man’s freedom that through Jesus is rooted in the will of the Father and, starting from Him, learns to distinguish the good and the right". Nowadays, denounces the Pope, "this freedom has been entirely taken away from the look on God and the communion with Jesus", and so the "right laicity of the State was turned into secularism, of which the oblivion of God and the exclusive orientation to success seem to have become the constituent parts".
