Abstract
In his keynote address at the symposium, the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, D.D., calls attention to the process of renewal ushered in by the Second Vatican Council, which aimed to overcome the separation between the Church and modern sciences (culture). The secular culture became indifferent or even antagonistic to religious truth, and the Church, for a time, was unable to move on from a defensive position. “The historic novelty of Vatican Council II,” according to Versaldi, “was essentially that of taking the Church towards a nondefensive and rather proactive dialogue with the world, without denying the difficulties that an anti-Christian culture created for the Church in modern times.”
Recommended Citation
Versaldi, Giuseppe Cardinal
(2016)
"Leading and Serving through Theology: 50 Years After Vatican II,"
Landas: Vol. 30:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/landas/vol30/iss1/5