In today's world there is "a sense of insecurity, primarily due to social and economic instability, exacerbated by a weakening of the perception of ethical principles that underpin the law and personal moral attitudes, which give strength to the rules that govern society".
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - In the current relativistic culture, an idea is spreading that "there are no objective reference points in determining what is true from what is not true, instead it is the individual, with his or her insights and experiences , that is the measure thereof, and so each person therefore their own truth, their own morality. " For Christians, however, the conscience is the human capacity to recognize the truth, and, before that, the opportunity to hear its call, to try and find it".From these two visions, mentioned today by Benedict XVI, opposing consequences emerge. In the first case "religion and morality tend to be confined within the sphere of the subjective, the private: faith with its values and its behaviour, in short, is no longer entitled to a place in public or civil life". While in the case of the Christian perspective "man needs to know how to be open to the truth and to goodness, to welcome them in a free and conscious manner." Hence the need for "god and man to meet each other again" and for institutions rediscover their moral roots.
"The new challenges that emerge on the horizon demand that God and man may once more meet, that society and public institutions rediscover their "soul ", their spiritual and moral roots, to give new substance to ethical values and legal references, and then practical action. The Christian faith and the Church can not cease to offer its own contribution to promoting the common good and an authentic human progress. "