Shunning a truth-seeker
January 17, 2008
Father Raymond J. De Souza

It's a combustible combustion, the pope and the university. The serene priest-scholar provokes the most frenzied reactions.

Today, Pope Benedict XVI was scheduled to give a magisterial address at Rome's most venerable university, La Sapienza. It promised to be one of the set-piece academic masterpieces for which Benedict is renowned. The Holy Father was to explore the relationship of faith and reason in the search for truth, the purpose for which universities exist. the rest

Text of the address that the Holy Father Benedict XVI was supposed to have given during a visit to Rome's Università degli Studi