Pope Benedict is talking about Natural Law and he's going to keep up the theme, so you might as well know what he's talking about.
People who know what natural law is are going to report about it using that terminology, and people who aren't familiar with the concept might be confused. Here is Zenit talking about the Pope talking about how relativism is harmful to families; an understanding of natural law will help towards a remedy.
Natural law has to do with the idea that there is an objective order against which human laws can be judged good or bad, and that this order can be perceived or deduced even by people who do not have the fullness of the Faith - or even any faith at all. It is the contrary of relativism - the idea that all truth claims are equally valid or that the truth for you is decided by you or totally by the society in which you participate.
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