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The Archbishop of Zaragoza, Archbishop Manuel Ureña, has been awarded honorary doctorates by UCAM
San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) held this morning the feast of its patron, San Antonio de Padua.
After the Eucharistic celebration, presided by the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, took place the solemn academic ceremony, during which they have been awarded honorary doctorates by UCAM, Archbishop of Zaragoza, Archbishop Manuel Ureña, Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Lars Peterson and Professor Emeritus at the University Complutense of Madrid, and academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Juan Jiménez Collado.
The University president, José Luis Mendoza, chaired the event.
They have also been present at the head table, the rector, Josefina García Lozano, Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Bishop José Manuel Lorca, the Minister for Universities and Research Company, Salvador Marín, the president of the Regional Assembly, Francisco Celdran, the honorary president of the UCAM, Antonio Montoro, and the rector of the Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza), Carlos Perez.
Cardinal Cañizares, has said during his homily that men and women of the University must seek the wisdom of God's truth and the truth of man, and emphasized the importance of preserving the privileged university teaching environment which favors the finding the answers to fundamental questions of existence.
"Man's life becomes meaningful only through selfless service to another. The University is critical to the future of humanity can not forget his dedication to service. Its mission is to focus on finding a true humanism, to the extent of men and material and spiritual needs. "
Pre-political foundations and metapolitical
"Justice is not only the object but also the intrinsic criterion of all politics. It is not justice that is measured and cut by politics, but politics that is measured and cut into the workshop of justice" Archbishop Manuel Ureña said during his inaugural speech, in which he lectured on 'The question of the necessity of the existence of pre-political foundations and legitimizing metapolitical advanced societies of our time. "
Furthermore, he assured that "the West needs to claim the pre-foundation and political goal of justice in our democratic societies, apparently so advanced, but in the background, standing on feet of clay."
The new Doctor Honoris Causa from the Catholic University sociologist theories recalled Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger, now His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, and has ensured that both recognize that reason and religious faith help and complementary.
The Archbishop of Zaragoza has stressed that "the State is inevitably always urged to do justice here and now, but, as this is an ethical nature can not invent, but merely recognized and applied."
On the Social Doctrine of the Church, Monsignor Ureña has stated that it wants to contribute to greater insight into the authentic requirements of justice and to grow the availability of politicians to act on it, "even though this may be in contrast with situations of personal interest and interest of political choice, "he remarked.
The first beats of life
Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Juan Jiménez Collado, has focused his speech as the new Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCAM, in embryology, in the beginning of human life.
The professor has argued that under scientific criteria "a new human life begins at the same moment of fertilization, when two morphological realities arises a third reality, whose genetic blueprint contained in the two pronuclei, is a new and undeniable life program human. We believe that the embryo is a person, even before they have developed in the form and function of the cerebral cortex, and added that "this new human being has acquired and is possessed of such dignity that can not be destroyed in the name of freedom , for games of a culture of death which claim the right to decide the lives of others. "
For the term pre-embryo, Jiménez Collado is satisfied that it is merely a legal fiction, "a linguistic artifact that has no scientific or ethical basis as is used to destroy an unborn life," he qualified.
Cartilage regeneration
For his part, Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Lars Peterson, has focused his inaugural speech in the regeneration / repair of cartilage as a clinical reality.
The new Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCAM has analyzed the current status and future trends in basic research and clinical development of cartilage diseases.
"Despite the large overall development in medicine and biotechnology, improving the treatment of cartilage injuries has been slow and limited success," Peterson said at the beginning of his lecture.
In addition, on new developments, said that "the latest development of different types of cartilage treatment techniques such as procedures for stimulating the bone marrow, are giving promising results in the medium and long term."
During the celebration also involved the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes, highlighted by the tripod on which rests the UCAM: evangelism, teaching and research.
For his part, President of Catholic University, José Luis Mendoza, stressed the student service as a basis for the University and has ensured that the UCAM is working with the Church's evangelizing role.
Source: UCAM
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