Vatican City, 27 November, 2024 / 1:30 pm (ACI Africa).
The Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education is sponsoring a four-day event in Rome to honor the spiritual and intellectual legacy of Pope Saint John Paul II while marking the 25th anniversary of his encyclical Fides et Ratio.
Twenty years into his pontificate, John Paul II released Fides et Ratio — ”Faith and Reason” — on the Sept. 14 feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in 1998.
Describing faith and reason as “two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of the truth,” the pope emphasized that the human heart ultimately seeks to know and love God.
Organized by the John Paul II Vatican Foundation, the Church and Hospice of Saint Stanislaus Martyr in Rome, and the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow, the “Days of Saint John Paul II at the Pontifical Universities of Rome” event includes a series of seminars to be hosted by three pontifical universities in Rome.
From Nov. 26-29, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas — also known as the “Angelicum” — alongside the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the Pontifical Gregorian University will hold panel discussions in Rome to delve deeper into the teachings of St. John Paul II on a variety of topics.
