Pope lectures German ambassador on abortion, prostitution, porn

November 07, 2011
Vatican City

(AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI received the new German ambassador to the Holy See on Monday, lecturing him about abortion, pornography and prostitution..

"Only a society which unconditionally respects and defends the dignity of each human being, from conception to natural end, can call itself a human society," Benedict told Reinhard Schweppe, the new German ambassador.

The pope then criticised discrimination and sexual exploitation of against women in Western countries like his native Germany.

"It is a critical problem which, due to materialistic and hedonistic tendencies, seems to be on the increase, above all in the Western world". the rest