In his pre-Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, the pope did not mention rape, let alone the sexual murder in Delhi. Instead, in his defense of the family – or, as he would put it, the sacred union between man and woman – he pointed out how sexual arrangements outside that union were a threat to human civilization.
但这并不是本笃十六世最近关于性行为危险演讲的主旨。在其罗马教廷圣诞演讲中，教皇并没有提到强奸，更别说德里的性谋杀了。相反，他为家庭做了辩护——他称之为男人和女人之间难得的联盟——指出这一联盟之外的性安排是对人类文明的威胁。他在含沙射影地抨击同性联盟。