” “In addition, Benedict XVI outlined, as it were, the guidelines on topical issues concerning life: "The new frontiers of bioethics he said do not force us to choose between science and morality, but they rather demand that we make a moral use of science". Then, "the worrying attacks against the integrity of the family, founded on the marriage of a man and a woman": "the political leaders, no matter what they side they are on said the Pope , should defend this institution, which is the basic cell of society". Religious freedom too, "an inalienable need of the dignity of every man and the cornerstone of the edifice of human rights”, denounced the Pontiff, "is often compromised", since "there are many places in which it cannot be fully asserted". In this scenario, the Holy See "defends it and demands that everyone respect it", and "is worried about the discriminations that are committed against Christians and against the followers of other religions". ” “
