” “"Upright consciences well versed in the Gospel will be more easily pushed to build a life-size society", commented Benedict XVI, who added: "A misunderstood modernity now tends to exceedingly extol the needs of the individual to the detriment of the duties that every person has towards God and the community to which they belong". It is important, then, "to highlight the upright concept of civil and public accountability, because it is just from this view that comes one’s commitment to respect everyone’s rights and a fervent integration of one’s culture with the other cultures, aiming together at the common good". In the historical process of restructuring of the European continent, "your Churches too feel involved, in the awareness that they can make their unique contribution", but "obstacles are not missing", such as "the scarcity of available means due to the economic situation and the smallness of the Catholic forces". "It is not easy to forget he went on the heavy heritage of over forty years of single thinking, and at the same time it is difficult to resist the temptations of western materialism with the risks of relativism and ethical liberalism, radicalism and political fundamentalism".” “
