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

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.

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

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

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.

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

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.