90^th Anniversary of Italy’s Catholic University

(May 21,2011) It is Faith that gives meaning to human knowledge and to the achievements of human technology, said Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to the five hundred odd pilgrims gathered in Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican, Saturday, adding that Faith was a gift capable of awakening the rich cultures of peoples. The Pope was meeting the representatives of Italy’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, led by the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi., on the occasion of the 90^th anniversary of the founding of the University. The Catholic Church armed with age-old experience was an eminent school of humanity which imparted knowledge and a sense of values the Holy Father said further. Earlier Cardinal Tettamanzi, had celebrated Mass for the pilgrims in St Peter’s Basilica. The pilgrims included students, professors, and other personnel of the University. They had come with their families to celebrate the anniversary with the Pope.. The Pope reminded his listeners that at 90 years since its foundation the catholic University was living at a time when it was necessary to remember the reasons for its foundation by a Church which bears the name Catholic, meaning universal. And it had to resist the efforts of a culture that tries to marginalize the action of the church and to make the truths of face only a matter of opinion. The Catholic University should bear witness to the truth that it’s the church that opens out the genuine horizons of knowledge and abiding culture.