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San Antonio Catholic University (UCAM) was held this morning the feast of its patron Saint Anthony of Padua.
With this celebration, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, has been awarded honorary doctorates by UCAM.
The event has involved the University president, José Luis Mendoza, the rector, Josefina García Lozano, and the bishop of the diocese of Cartagena, Bishop José Manuel Lorca, along with numerous civil and religious authorities. The day began with holding a solemn Eucharistic celebration presided by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares.
During the homily, the prelate noted that "the university is a place of wisdom, true wisdom is the Cross of Christ, the Catholic University can not and should not be transmitted to find something else: that without the wisdom that comes from God we will not be nothing. And that wisdom is the cross of Jesus Christ. "
Archbishop Cañizares has also stated that "certainly say that the true wisdom, we seek and yearn, you can brighten up this world and the university work is the Cross of Christ sounds like a crazy general, even more so in times when it seems that man reaches maturity engaged in their own wisdom, not only lead to closing of the man within himself. "Then the president of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, opened the inaugural session of Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera as Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Catolica San Antonio.
After welcoming remarks, by the rector, Josefina García Lozano, Laudatio reading, by the rector of Religious Affairs, José Alberto Cánovas and delivery of academic attributes to the new Doctor, Cardinal Cañizares has given his inaugural speech in which he emphasized the vocation of service to humanity, in the nature of the university should focus its attention and concern in the promotion and development of man in search of truth and respect their dignity and their rights.
Archbishop Cañizares said that "today we live now particularly important to the future of the University and to fulfill its humanist vocation. The University, who was born in the medieval period with the breakthrough of the Catholic Church today needs to rethink its role and its role to the media, increasingly vast and articulated field of research. "
The cardinal stressed that "it is necessary to address the risks of knowledge increasingly specialized and fragmented, difficult technology applications increasingly complex and new issues, most delicate and crucial, which brings into play the concept of life itself. It is necessary to human values and life in the center of scientific and educational concerns of the university. "
The cardinal has made it clear that all this "Church and University, especially the UCAM, as Catholic University and work of the Church, are in the most lively of the mission of both calls and therefore to work closely as neighbors and allies, as the constant message of John Paul II, who through the encyclical Fides et Ratio, showing how faith and reason are the two wings on which the human spirit rises to contemplation and enjoyment of the truth, as befits University and calls for the good of man and society. "After the swearing in the new Doctor by the president of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes expressed his joy by appointment, and assured that this "still more links to our land." Meanwhile, the University president, José Luis Mendoza, who recalled the figure of San Antonio de Padua, thanked the Cardinal Cañizares close links with the UCAM, embodied in the great support for the creation of the University and its subsequent consolidation.
It has also highlighted the role of defender Cañizares as evangelism, truth, justice and law.
Source: UCAM
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