Unlike the professors and students who irrationally protested the Pope speaking at their University, Pope Benedict actually understands the role of faith.
The speech the Pope could not deliver: “I don’t come to impose the faith” (emphasis mine)
The Holy Father’s visit to Rome’s oldest university, which was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, was suspended after a group of professors and students threatened to disrupt the event with their protests.
“What has a Pope to do or say at a University? Certainly not to impose the faith on others in an authoritarian way, which can only be given to others in freedom,” the Pope writes in his speech meant to be delivered at La Sapienza. Instead of speaking to the students and faculty, the address had to be published in the daily edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. In his speech, Benedict XVI points out that “La Sapie
What a sad state of affairs for the people of that university. But would it be different at a secular University here in the United States? I have found those that champion “reason” in secular society often use the term to mean rejection of faith - not the right use of the mind in forming correct judgements.
