Cardinal Bertone: "The rule of law is central to society"

CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - "To live in a peaceful and orderly society requires a precise reference to the law." And 'one of the central passages of the homily delivered by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal. Tarcisio Bertone during the Mass for the inauguration of the judicial year of the Court of the State of Vatican City.

The legality, Bertone said, "you get rediscovering the positive sense of the moral and liberating at the same time, its social impact." "The moral law - said the cardinal - does not arise against the people and their needs, but is at his service, as it helps not to be separated internally from the deeper truth that God has given in his heart, and the actual behavior that takes over a lifetime.

" "In that regard - continued the secretary of state - is the great task of the Christian community: it, at every level, is called to educate the law of God, the Commandments. In a confusing and often bewildering cultural situation like the present - has also seen - we see that the reference to the church is alive and strong, because it recognizes the capacity and authority to pronounce a word of encouragement and hope.

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