Rome, Italy, Feb 20, 2013 / 15:59 pm
Two leaders from one of the world's largest pro-life groups think Pope Benedict XVI will be remembered for defending traditional marriage and his contributions to bioethics.
"He defended marriage as between a man and a woman and made statements, which later he was attacked for, because we really are in a very concerning situation where same-sex 'marriage' is being legalized worldwide," said Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, director of Human Life International's Rome office.
"People are going to realize how the pressure to give legal status to same-sex 'marriage' grew in this decade, they'll will see it as a problem, and they'll see Pope Benedict as prophetic after having been very clear that this goes against nature," Msgr. Barreiro told CNA Feb. 15.
Joseph Meaney, the institution's director of international coordination, pointed out that people raised by same-sex parents are already coming forward to talk about all of the problems caused by marriage being redefined.