Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#come #new #traditional #traditional values #values

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

#against #christian #communism #driving #driving force

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#consenting adults #i #i think #into #nose

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#conscience #difference #hold #law #moral

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#debate #democratic #democratic society #hierarchy #inspiration

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#right #say #sin

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#children #fact #give #graduate #in fact

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

#care #children #exists #family #male

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#function #should #social #social function #sustained

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#atheist #left #new #obligatory #religion