” “Today, "the holiness of marriage and the family is attacked with impunity, starting by making concessions to pressures that negatively affect the law-making processes" and eventually arriving at the "wound of divorce and free unions". In Brazil, the Pope insisted that "where there is no faith in Jesus Christ, there is no basis for solving the urgent social and political problems". In his speech to the Brazilian Bishops, whom he met today in the Cathedral of Sao Paulo, Benedict XVI commented that "these are hard times for the Church", because "the social life is going through a time of disconcerting bewilderment". According to the Holy Father, "crimes against life are justified in the name of the rights of individual freedom; the dignity of the human being is attacked; the wound of divorce and free unions is spread everywhere". Even "within the Church", according to the Pontiff, "the value of priestly commitment as a total reliance on God through the apostolic celibacy and as a total willingness to serve the souls is questioned, and ideological and political, even party-political, issues take priority". ” “
