This address by Professor Robert de Mattei, former professor at the European University of Rome and founder of the Lepanto Foundation, was delivered on 18 May 2017 at the fourth annual Rome Life Forum organised by Voice of the Family.
We appreciate good things when we lose them. If we do not wish to lose them, then we must appreciate them for that which they are worth.
The family is a good thing which we are losing. This is the obvious reality from which we must start. The family in Europe and in the West is undergoing a profound crisis. Relativist-Sociologists do not want to speak of a crisis, because this word contains, according to them, a moral judgement on the analyzed phenomenon. They speak, rather, of a transformation of family patterns or of an evolution of familial forms. But these words, too, contain a moral judgement. According to the relativist perspective, all that which takes place in history and in society is good. The absolute good is represented by change, evil by …More