VATICAN CITY, MAY 19, 2000 (VIS) - At midday today, the Pope received teachers and students of the Pontifical "Auxilium" Faculty of Educational Sciences, which is marking 30 years of activity.
The Holy Father said: "Make your own the needs of evangelization in the cultural period through which we are now living, especially those that concern human life, the person, the family and peace and solidarity between peoples."
John Paul II recalled that the faculty, which "draws its inspiration from the Christian and pedagogic humanism of St. John Bosco, considers the individual according to the design of God the Creator and promotes a plan for men and women that is rooted in a Christian vision of life."
After highlighting the danger of losing a sense of God and the inability to see signs of His presence in creation and history, he said: "This danger may be avoided by rediscovering and
encouraging the profound, interior and human dimension of integral education, illuminated by an evangelical perspective."
The Pope told professors and students of the "Auxilium" that the challenge to which they are called is "to represent the anthropological vision of men and women according to God's design and to translate it into appropriate and scientifically well-founded educational categories."
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