Card. Parolin to S.C.: timeless truth speaks to world today
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(Vatican Radio) The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has sent a letter to Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan and President of the Giuseppe Toniolo Institute for Higher Studies, which founded and and continues to promote Italy’s premier Catholic institution of higher learning, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and Rome, on occasion of the 92nd “Day for the Catholic University” in Italy.In his letter, Cardinal Parolin writes of the ever-present and pressingly urgent need today to recover and to continue the conversation between timeless truth and contemporary culture. “Without an eye to the fundamental values of truth, goodness, justice and peace, which comes from a genuine opening of the spirit,” writes Cardinal Parolin, “you cannot counter the strong impulses toward materialism and scientific positivism that seem to be the dominant coordina...
(Vatican Radio) The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has sent a letter to Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan and President of the Giuseppe Toniolo Institute for Higher Studies, which founded and and continues to promote Italy’s premier Catholic institution of higher learning, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and Rome, on occasion of the 92nd “Day for the Catholic University” in Italy.
In his letter, Cardinal Parolin writes of the ever-present and pressingly urgent need today to recover and to continue the conversation between timeless truth and contemporary culture. “Without an eye to the fundamental values of truth, goodness, justice and peace, which comes from a genuine opening of the spirit,” writes Cardinal Parolin, “you cannot counter the strong impulses toward materialism and scientific positivism that seem to be the dominant coordinates on which the culture and society of our time seem to move.”
The theme chosen for the 92nd Day for the Catholic University – celebrated Sunday, April 10th – was: “The Italy of tomorrow: I’ll be there, starting today!”
Cardinal Parolin notes in his letter how a core element of Catholic education is its ability to create and foster a spirit of service. “A distinctive sign of the Catholic institution of higher learning,” he writes, “must always and ever more be that of an education energetically ordered to solidarity and the service of the least among us, through all dimensions of knowledge and human life.”
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