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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.