Rome, Italy, Dec 11, 2008 / 19:07 pm
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, said this week human rights “cannot be considered as containers that according to particular historical, cultural and political moments, are filled with different meanings and elements.” Their common roots, he said, are found in natural law which, as Pope Benedict XVI said in his speech at the U.N., “is written on the heart of man.”
According to the SIR news agency, during his speech at a congress on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Rome, Cardinal Bertone warned that amidst the troubling global situation “fundamental rights seem to depend on uncontrolled anonymous mechanisms and on a vision that unfolds in the pragmatism of the moment.”