DAY HONORING SACRED HEART CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

VATICAN CITY, APR 28, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today was the text of the annual message from Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano - in the name of the Pope - to the rector of Sacred Heart Catholic University in Milan, Prof. Sergio Zaninelli, on the occasion of the celebration of tomorrow's Day for Sacred Heart Catholic University.

Recalling this year's theme, "The Boldness of Reason, the Freedom of Faith," Cardinal Sodano affirms that "to unite 'the freedom of faith' and 'the boldness of reason': this is a demanding plan of cultural rebuilding in which the Catholic University must be a protagonist, in constant tune with the orientations proposed by the Italian episcopate."

The secretary of state emphasized the necessity to challenge "the widespread attempt to reduce existence to mere material and economic dimensions, ignoring the boundless longing for transcendence which the human being experiences."

The university, Cardinal Sodano goes on to affirm, "is called, likewise, to show how the rediscovery of an ethic of limits is conceived not so much as a restraint to the uncontrollable drift of our society, as an opportunity to approach the possibilities offered by the Creator to the free responsibility of man."

"The Holy Father hopes that this athenaeum, in the wake of its long and well-deserved academic tradition, continues to take every care in order that the dialogue between reason and faith increases ever more scientific research and the authentic freedom of man."

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