"While it is necessary to recall that the vast majority of priests and religious in America are doing a very good job", stated Benedict XVI in his speech to the bishops in the United States, "it is fundamental to always protect vulnerable subjects from all the people who might hurt them". In this respect, he added, "your efforts to relieve and protect are highly fruitful not simply with respect to the ones who are directly under your pastoral care, but also for the whole society". However, "to reach their goals in a complete way", pointed out the Pope, "it is necessary to place the measures and the strategies you adopted in a bigger context. Children have the right to grow up by understanding sexuality as well as its proper role in human relationships in a sound way. They should not meet with the degrading manifestations and the trivial manipulation of sexuality which are so dominant today". "What does talking about children protection mean wondered the Pope if pornography and violence may be watched in so many houses through the mass media, which are available to such remarkable extent today?".
