” “The tendency "to identify good with profit", to consider "legitimate the elimination of human life at its prenatal or terminal stage", "the crisis that the family based on the indissoluble marriage of man and woman is experiencing". These are some of the concerns expressed today by Benedict XVI to the participants in the meeting promoted by Internazionale democratica di centro e democratico cristiana (Idc) (Central Democratic and Christian Democratic International) headed by president Pierferdinando Casini. The Pope encouraged the politicians "to keep working hard to serve the common good" in order to prevent the spreading of "ideologies that may numb or confuse people’s minds". "There is said the Pontiff , in the economic sphere, a tendency that identifies good with profit and thus breaks the strength of the ethos from the inside, eventually threatening profit itself. Some think that human reason is unable to grasp the truth and therefore to pursue the good that corresponds to the dignity of the person. Then there are those who consider legitimate the elimination of human life at its prenatal or terminal stage. Also worrying is the crisis that the family based on the indissoluble marriage of man and woman is experiencing. Experience shows that, when the family is undermined in its foundations, peace itself is endangered". (continued)” “
