No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. Rocco Buttiglione Read Quote
John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history. Rocco Buttiglione Read Quote
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe’s Christian roots was the driving force. Rocco Buttiglione Read Quote
The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them. Rocco Buttiglione Read Quote
I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think – without saying whether I think it or not – I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. Rocco Buttiglione Read Quote