Creer que Dios habla

Creo que el incidente de La Sapienza podría merecer unas líneas, pero esperaré un par de días para ver cómo evolucionan las cosas antes de animarme a comentarlo en el blog. Mientras tanto, copio unos de los mejores reportes que he hallado al respecto.

The Pope and Intellectual Freedom

This article was authored by Bernd Bergmann, a student of constitutional law and an intern at Istituto Acton, the Rome office of the Acton Institute.

This week Benedict XVI canceled a visit to La Sapienza University in Rome, an institution founded by Pope Boniface VIII in 1303. The decision was made after a number of professors and students had announced protests claiming that the pontiff’s presence would undermine the autonomy and free scientific inquiry of the university. After canceling the visit which was planned for the opening of the academic year on January 17th, the Vatican released the speech which Benedict XVI would have delivered. In the speech he defends the intellectual freedom and autonomy of universities. His emphatic pledge for the unimpeded and autonomous search for truth is an embarrassment for his opponents who are now themselves being accused of intolerance by large parts of the Italian public.

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