The Wisdom of the scream no pope
article is about Stephen Milani from "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
"Out of the pope from the university." The slogan has become a symbol of these days, yesterday, a certainty. Increased from just five in the afternoon when the news reached the ears of the Pope's about-face students. I'm in the midst of an assembly of the collective locked inside a classroom of Political Science. It is to organize work, plan events, coordinate meetings of the network of "anti-clerical week" against the arrival of the host side. Suddenly a phone rings. Then another. And another. There is talk of rumors, rumors, rumors simple yet to be confirmed. But just take a round of phone calls to some friends, get someone who's in front of a computer and an Internet connection to confirm that you want. "The pope is no more." A scoop is all George Sestili, coordination of the collective wisdom, which almost does not believe it when he pronounces the sentence. 'It's true, it is true, say it also Internet sites, "confirming others. "So it's official?". "Yes, yes we won." The joy at this point is uncontrolled. Applause, shouts, slaps on the back. "Out of the pope from the University": the chorus part instantly. The first hot comments are euphoric. "He won the living body of the university." The "victory of secularism
lla against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue," adds George. Francesco Raparelli, the Network for the self, goes further, calling the day yesterday, "an indication of policy for the country against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue. "To enjoy and understand this" historic victory "(as some call it 'all) but you must start from the beginning. From one day to the collective started at nine. The appointment is in front of the Physics Department. The day's program includes discussions, film screenings, meetings, meetings. There are those who prepare the sandwiches for lunch anticlerical, always based on pork and Piquette, who takes care of covering the lane inside the campus of leaflets and posters in which the effigy of Pope Ratzinger is crazy in all salse.Tutti damage to the waiting 12. At the stroke of half a wave is just a protest from the corridors the faculty moved into the heart of the academic institution: the rectory. Employment is too simple. Go up one floor and you enter into the hall of the Senate. Nobody expected it. Not even the janitor, took place in the ornamental plants have just arrived to make the entrance more welcoming Pope in Aula Magna. Angry are angry, but the tone remains peaceful. Without clear and the reasons: "For knowledge, a science and a secular university. So that learning needs neither priests nor masters. " And again: "Because the university is a community of scholars belonging to different cultural orientations, schools of thought, addresses scientific, religious beliefs policies and accessions, all equally recognized no privilege. " They want a meeting with Renato Guarini, the chancellor in person, so give them permission to be able to display to coincide with the pope's arrival at the university. A tug-of two hours, then finally the encounter with the "magnificent" which may receive the promised freedom of expression. Sure, you can not do it freely, but must remain within a given area, including the statue of Minerva and the Faculty of Arts, but students must be good with it. Just look at their smiles while leaving the offices of the rector. Smiles can not be compared to those who will be there a few hours with the announcement of the Holy See that for boys is a liberazione.E now? No pope no party? No way, the fight continues. With or without Ratzinger. But now the targets of student protests change perspectives. They crossed the Tiber and the Vatican go directly to the buildings policy. Now the "warm" reception will be for the Minister Mussi University and the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni. "And 'a scandal - says Francesco - who are given billions of public funding for Catholic institutions that deal with care, support and training. Mussi and Veltroni above we will still have to explain why in two years there have been significant steps in terms of funding for public universities and research. "also confirmed all the appointments of the" anti-clerical week ". "Frocessione" included. The march will start Thursday at 12 from Piazzale Aldo Moro and parade through the streets of San Lorenzo to "lay bare" say the organizers, "the Vatican's homophobia and misogyny." Because "not enough, the Pope out of Wisdom, we want out of our lives."
Pope descends from the chair: canceled visit to La Sapienza
article Eleonora Martini taken from the "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
Rome. "Following the well-known events of recent days in connection with the Holy Father's visit to the University of Rome La Sapienza, who at the invitation of the Rector would have to occur Thursday, January 17, it was decided to postpone the event. The Holy Father will send, however, the planned intervention. " It is the bare statement of the Vatican press office, but the effect is explosive in the Italian political world. And inevitably the telluric waves propagate inside the campus of Rome, by investing in particular the 67 teachers of the Physics Department who had criticized the invitation of the Rector but never support the protests students. But the decision has been taken Ratzinger seems more a problem of image and personal security, at least according to Interior Minister Amato. The Pope was "the subject of a gravissi
mo rejection that occurs close cultural intolerance and undemocratic," charged in a statement Cei. Besides, how could the Holy Father appear in front of television around the world as one that raged outside the Great Hall of the Italian bishops call the "ideological violence and brawling a few"? The hope of the Presidency of the CEI is that the university can get back to normal "by restoring the cultural and educational function of the University." A blow to the Rector Renato Guarini who had hoped until the last, despite rumors that they were running for a couple of days and took it for possible twist. Then all day yesterday, Guarini was brokered with the students, meeting spaces and promising them so as not to see amplified and politicized their protest. Useless. When he learns to night "with regret" the news gives way to the temptation to point the finger at "some teachers who I call" bad teachers "." "The meeting with the Pope - reads the note from the Rector - could represent an important moment of reflection for believers and nonbelievers on ethical issues and civil rights, such as commitment to the abolition of the death penalty." The "Bad teachers" but do not rejoice even though many people consider "wise" decision of the Pope in particular, Marcello Cini, argued that the columns of the first manifesto of dissent with Guarini.
" I know that we have been branded as intolerant and we will be branded as extremists - says Cini - but I can only reiterate that the university is a community of scholars based on their gender debate of the issues more varied. Whoever owned this place for dialogue industry has every right to also support the thesis of the Pope and all my respect. But I have always been opposed to a monologue delivered by an external authority that proclaims itself the repository of absolute truth .
"The misconduct was invited - adds Giorgio Parisi, one of the 67 signatories - what happened next is the result of what we defined a" visit incongruous "." "Incredible though - Parisi claims - that the Vatican discovered only two days before the visit of Pope dissent and protest." "Very happy," the Pope's decision to waive the inauguration of the academic year is also the physical Andrea Frova, author of "Word of Galileo," which, translated into several languages, addresses the issue of relations between science and religion. Frova is among those who had "Agree with the arguments of Cini but not his ideological positions" and is keen to point out that politically far from obvious. "By expressing our point of view we have not done anything but respond to one of our civic duty. We were then exploited by politicians, the media and also by students. I find it unworthy of a democratic country occupations and protests that bring the university to the climate of the '70s. " But it is not repentant, Frova, "It does not matter now if the Pope's speech will be distributed and read by someone, it is important to demonstrate that the Italians are not all equal. Some people do not bow before the Pope IPS dixit. "
Marcello Cini's letter to the Chancellor
This is the letter sent by Marcello Cini during the month of November 2007 to the Rector Renato Guarini, on the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at the University, the visit had been arranged for January 17, 2008. Later, dozens of other professors have signed (the end of the article you can 'read the letter of support to Cini that they wrote) and in January about 700 professors have endorsed the content.
* If Wisdom calls the Pope to leave home *
Mussi Marcello Cini
Mr. Rector, I learn from a memorandum dated November 1 AGI news agency that says, "is changed program of the inauguration 705esimo the Academic Year University of Rome La Sapienza, which initially included the presence of minister Mussi LectioMagistralis to listen to Pope Benedict XVI. " The pope "will be, but after the opening ceremony, and the Minister Fabio Mussi University instead there will be no more." As a professor emeritus of the University La Sapienza - resort in recent days fifty years after my call to join the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the suggestion of physical Edoardo Amaldi, Giorgio Salvini, Enrico Persico - I can not esprimerepubblicamente my indignation at your proposal, communicated to the Senate on October 23, clumsily repaired later with a patch that tries to hide the hole and at the same time it bears the majority of the political objective and the media. Not comment on the sad fact that you have been elected with the decisive contribution of a secular electorate. A Catholic Democrat - all represented by the example of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro nelcorso of his seven-year presidency of the Republic - would never dream of forgetting that since September 20, 1870 Rome is no longer the capital of the Papal States. I shall focus instead on the incredible breach of the traditional autonomy of universities - more than 705 years incarnated in the world by His Wisdom iniziativa.Sul formal plan, first of all. Although in the first centuries after the founding of universities theology has been taught alongside the humanities, philosophy, mathematics and natural, is not yesterday that this discipline is no more trace in the modern universities, at least in those states' public non-denominational. I do not know the status of the University of Regensburg, where Professor Ratzinger gave the keynote note which I shall discuss later, but I insist that as a rule it is only part of the religious instruction given in universities.
The themes that were the subject of the studies of Professor Ratzinger, however, should not fall under the topics of a lesson, much less of a keynote, held in a university the Italian Republic. Especially if one considers that, since the time of Descartes, was reached to end the conflict between knowledge and faith culminated in the condemnation of Galileo by the Holy Office, a division of spheres of competence between the Academy and Church. His blatant violation of the academic year during the inauguration of La Sapienza was regarded in the world as a step back in time three hundred years and more. On the substantive
then the implications would be even more devastating. Consider them starting right from the text of the keynote of Professor Ratzinger in Regensburg, from which presumably would not have deviated much that of Rome. In it is it clear that the policy of the papacy of Benedict XVI is based on the thesis that the division of the respective spheres of competence between faith and knowledge is no longer valid. "Deep ... it is - I quote - the encounter between faith and reason, between genuine enlightenment and religione.Partendo the very heart of Christian faith and, at the same time, the nature of greek thought now joined to faith, Manuel II was able to say: Not to act "with logos" is contrary to God's nature. "Do not insist on the dangers of this program in terms of politics and culture: just think of the reaction in the Muslim world that there would dall'accenno the difference between the Christian God and Allah - attributed to supposed rationality of the first in comparison to the unpredictable irrationality of the second - which would in turn gave rise to the meekness of the Christian and Islamic violence. It takes a lot of courage to support this view and hide under the mat the Crusades, the pogroms against the Jews, the extermination of the natives of the Americas, the slave trade, the stakes of the Christians have given the world. Here I am interested, however, that this encounter between faith and reason, a conception of science as follows ambitiparziali a broader and more general rational knowledge which they should be subordinate. "The reason for its modern natural science - in fact, concluded the Pope - with the inherent his Platonic element bears within itself a question which transcends all the possibilities of its methodology. It simply has to accept the rational structure of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a matter of fact, which is based on its methodology. But the question (why this did datodi) exists and needs to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought - to philosophy and theology. For philosophy and, in a different way, for theology, listening to the grandiesperienze and beliefs of the religious traditions of humanity, especially that of the Christian faith is a source of knowledge, and to ignore it in would be an unacceptable restriction of our listening and responding. "
Beyond these circumlocutions design shows that in his new role, the former head of the Holy Office did not forget the task that traditionally compete in it. That's always been and continues to be the expropriation of the sphere of the sacred inherent in the depth of feelings and emotions of every human being by an institution claiming the exclusivity of mediation between the human and the divino.Un 'ownership that ignores and demeans the many different historical and geographical forms of this sphere so intimate and delicate without respect for personal dignity and integrity of each, however, changed individuo.Ha strategy. No longer able to use stakes and corporal punishment has learned from Ulysses. He used the effigy of the Goddess of Enlightenment Reason as a Trojan horse to enter the citadel of scientific knowledge and put it in line. I am not exaggerating. What is more, just as an example, the explicit support of the pope gave to the so-called theory of Intelligent Design but the attempt - led among others by a clumsy denial of the historical evidence, a gross distortion of the contents of internal disputes the scientific community and the old trick of caricature of the positions of the opponent - to bring the science under the pseudo-rational dogmas of the religion? And how they should react colleagues biologists and their students face a more or less indirect attack on the Darwinian theory of biological evolution that underlies all over the world of modern evolutionary biology? I can not understand, therefore, the reasons for your proposal so improvident and detrimental to the image of La Sapienza in the world. The result of his initiative, even in watered down form the Pope's visit (with "a salute to the university community) after an inauguration illegal inevitably will, however, that the newspapers of the day dopotitoleranno (you can not expect much going for the subtle ): "The Pope opens academic year at La Sapienza University." Congratulations, Mr. Rector. The His portrait will be next to those of his predecessors as a symbol of the autonomy of culture and progress of science.
The letter of support to Marcello Cini
Rome November 23, 2007
Rector, with these few lines wishes to note that we fully share the point of critical Mr Marcello Cini who addressed the press about the staggering initiative involving the intervention of Pope Benedict XVI at the inauguration of the Academic Sapienza.Nulla to add to the arguments of Cini, except for one thing. On March 15, 1990, still Cardinal, in a speech in the city of Parma, Joseph Ratzinger has taken a statement by Feyerabend: "At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Ilprocesso against Galileo was reasonable and fair. " These words, as scientists faithful to reason and as teachers who dedicate their lives to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, offend us and we umiliano.In name of secularism of science and culture and respect of our University open to teachers and students of all faiths and of all ideologies, we hope that the incongruous event can still be canceled. The dutiful
we send greetings,
Gabriella Augusti Tocco, Luciano M. Barone, Carlo Bernardini, Maria GraziaBetti, Enrico Bonatti, Maurizio Bonora, Federico Bordi, Bruno Borgia, VandaBouche ', Cacciani Marco, Francesco Calogero, Paolo Calvani, Paolo Camiz, Mario Capizzi, Antonio Capone, Sergio Caprara, Marzio Cassander, ClaudioCastellani, Flippo Cesi, Ciapetti Guido, Giovanni Ciccotti, Guido Corbo ', Cosmelli Carlo, Antonio Degasperis. Francesco De Luca, Francesco De Martini, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Carlo Di Castro, Carlo Doglioni, Massimo Falcioni, Favini Bernardo, Valeria Ferrari, Fernando Ferroni, Andrea Frova, MarcoGrilli, Maria Grazia Ianniello, Egidio Longo, Stefano Lupi, MaurizioLusignoli, Luciano Maiani, Carlo Mariani, Enzo Marinari, Paola Maselli, Enrico Massaro, Paolo Mataloni, Mario Mattioli, Giovanni Organtini, PaolaPaggi, Giorgio Parisi, Gianni I, Silvano Petrarca, Giancarlo Poiana, Tersenghi Federico Ricci, Giovanni Rosa, Enzo Scandurra, Massimo Testa, Brunello Tirozzi, Rita Vargas, Miguel A. Virasoro, Angelo Vulpiani, Lucia Zanello.
article is about Stephen Milani from "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
"Out of the pope from the university." The slogan has become a symbol of these days, yesterday, a certainty. Increased from just five in the afternoon when the news reached the ears of the Pope's about-face students. I'm in the midst of an assembly of the collective locked inside a classroom of Political Science. It is to organize work, plan events, coordinate meetings of the network of "anti-clerical week" against the arrival of the host side. Suddenly a phone rings. Then another. And another. There is talk of rumors, rumors, rumors simple yet to be confirmed. But just take a round of phone calls to some friends, get someone who's in front of a computer and an Internet connection to confirm that you want. "The pope is no more." A scoop is all George Sestili, coordination of the collective wisdom, which almost does not believe it when he pronounces the sentence. 'It's true, it is true, say it also Internet sites, "confirming others. "So it's official?". "Yes, yes we won." The joy at this point is uncontrolled. Applause, shouts, slaps on the back. "Out of the pope from the University": the chorus part instantly. The first hot comments are euphoric. "He won the living body of the university." The "victory of secularism
lla against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue," adds George. Francesco Raparelli, the Network for the self, goes further, calling the day yesterday, "an indication of policy for the country against the interference of the Catholic Church in a public space where they dominate reason and dialogue. "To enjoy and understand this" historic victory "(as some call it 'all) but you must start from the beginning. From one day to the collective started at nine. The appointment is in front of the Physics Department. The day's program includes discussions, film screenings, meetings, meetings. There are those who prepare the sandwiches for lunch anticlerical, always based on pork and Piquette, who takes care of covering the lane inside the campus of leaflets and posters in which the effigy of Pope Ratzinger is crazy in all salse.Tutti damage to the waiting 12. At the stroke of half a wave is just a protest from the corridors the faculty moved into the heart of the academic institution: the rectory. Employment is too simple. Go up one floor and you enter into the hall of the Senate. Nobody expected it. Not even the janitor, took place in the ornamental plants have just arrived to make the entrance more welcoming Pope in Aula Magna. Angry are angry, but the tone remains peaceful. Without clear and the reasons: "For knowledge, a science and a secular university. So that learning needs neither priests nor masters. " And again: "Because the university is a community of scholars belonging to different cultural orientations, schools of thought, addresses scientific, religious beliefs policies and accessions, all equally recognized no privilege. " They want a meeting with Renato Guarini, the chancellor in person, so give them permission to be able to display to coincide with the pope's arrival at the university. A tug-of two hours, then finally the encounter with the "magnificent" which may receive the promised freedom of expression. Sure, you can not do it freely, but must remain within a given area, including the statue of Minerva and the Faculty of Arts, but students must be good with it. Just look at their smiles while leaving the offices of the rector. Smiles can not be compared to those who will be there a few hours with the announcement of the Holy See that for boys is a liberazione.E now? No pope no party? No way, the fight continues. With or without Ratzinger. But now the targets of student protests change perspectives. They crossed the Tiber and the Vatican go directly to the buildings policy. Now the "warm" reception will be for the Minister Mussi University and the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni. "And 'a scandal - says Francesco - who are given billions of public funding for Catholic institutions that deal with care, support and training. Mussi and Veltroni above we will still have to explain why in two years there have been significant steps in terms of funding for public universities and research. "also confirmed all the appointments of the" anti-clerical week ". "Frocessione" included. The march will start Thursday at 12 from Piazzale Aldo Moro and parade through the streets of San Lorenzo to "lay bare" say the organizers, "the Vatican's homophobia and misogyny." Because "not enough, the Pope out of Wisdom, we want out of our lives." Pope descends from the chair: canceled visit to La Sapienza
article Eleonora Martini taken from the "manifesto" of January 16, 2008
Rome. "Following the well-known events of recent days in connection with the Holy Father's visit to the University of Rome La Sapienza, who at the invitation of the Rector would have to occur Thursday, January 17, it was decided to postpone the event. The Holy Father will send, however, the planned intervention. " It is the bare statement of the Vatican press office, but the effect is explosive in the Italian political world. And inevitably the telluric waves propagate inside the campus of Rome, by investing in particular the 67 teachers of the Physics Department who had criticized the invitation of the Rector but never support the protests students. But the decision has been taken Ratzinger seems more a problem of image and personal security, at least according to Interior Minister Amato. The Pope was "the subject of a gravissi
mo rejection that occurs close cultural intolerance and undemocratic," charged in a statement Cei. Besides, how could the Holy Father appear in front of television around the world as one that raged outside the Great Hall of the Italian bishops call the "ideological violence and brawling a few"? The hope of the Presidency of the CEI is that the university can get back to normal "by restoring the cultural and educational function of the University." A blow to the Rector Renato Guarini who had hoped until the last, despite rumors that they were running for a couple of days and took it for possible twist. Then all day yesterday, Guarini was brokered with the students, meeting spaces and promising them so as not to see amplified and politicized their protest. Useless. When he learns to night "with regret" the news gives way to the temptation to point the finger at "some teachers who I call" bad teachers "." "The meeting with the Pope - reads the note from the Rector - could represent an important moment of reflection for believers and nonbelievers on ethical issues and civil rights, such as commitment to the abolition of the death penalty." The "Bad teachers" but do not rejoice even though many people consider "wise" decision of the Pope in particular, Marcello Cini, argued that the columns of the first manifesto of dissent with Guarini. " I know that we have been branded as intolerant and we will be branded as extremists - says Cini - but I can only reiterate that the university is a community of scholars based on their gender debate of the issues more varied. Whoever owned this place for dialogue industry has every right to also support the thesis of the Pope and all my respect. But I have always been opposed to a monologue delivered by an external authority that proclaims itself the repository of absolute truth .
"The misconduct was invited - adds Giorgio Parisi, one of the 67 signatories - what happened next is the result of what we defined a" visit incongruous "." "Incredible though - Parisi claims - that the Vatican discovered only two days before the visit of Pope dissent and protest." "Very happy," the Pope's decision to waive the inauguration of the academic year is also the physical Andrea Frova, author of "Word of Galileo," which, translated into several languages, addresses the issue of relations between science and religion. Frova is among those who had "Agree with the arguments of Cini but not his ideological positions" and is keen to point out that politically far from obvious. "By expressing our point of view we have not done anything but respond to one of our civic duty. We were then exploited by politicians, the media and also by students. I find it unworthy of a democratic country occupations and protests that bring the university to the climate of the '70s. " But it is not repentant, Frova, "It does not matter now if the Pope's speech will be distributed and read by someone, it is important to demonstrate that the Italians are not all equal. Some people do not bow before the Pope IPS dixit. "
Wisdom: the "no pope" did not give up
(article by Stefano Milani - taken from the "manifesto" of January 15, 2008)
"Fra 'Giordano is burned, Galileo recanted. We will remain against the Papacy! No Pope. " The huge banner hoisted at the entrance of Wisdom is the personal "welcome" that academics have prepared a Roman Benedict XVI during his visit Thursday. And this is just the appetizer. For the rest Just take a ride inside the campus, all carpeted for the opportunity to playbills, posters and stickers against the uninvited guest. Was not spared even the Minerva statue, symbol of the Roman, covered by another sign which reads: "Knowledge needs neither fathers nor priests for knowledge, a science and a secular university." We read not for long, probably. The square is in transformation. Within two days the entire area will be off-limits to students and curious. And the reclamation work is well advanced. The tapes already surround the entire perimeter and signs warn "zone 
closed to parking on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17. The workers are to work from the early hours of yesterday so that everything runs smoothly. New asphalt, whitewashed walls, sidewalks, stucco, elbow grease to remove the black from the steps that lead straight to an assembly hall. "Which is all the pope must shine," says a scavenger ridendo.Gli students, for now, observe distant busy to develop the organizers of the "anti-clerical week" officially started yesterday with a lot of room "anti-pope" of bread, pork and wine. Alongside the students, even some teachers and almost all representatives of the collectives and associations of left Udu, Cobas, Action, Left critical Uaar, coordinating collective network for self-protection, coordination "Let's breakthrough," the collective of feminists' Sui generis', 'The apple of Eve, "" The ribelulle. But the membership increased from hour to ora.Il billboard of events is very dense. There will be projections on the life of Galileo, a mixture of student-teachers meetings, debates about evolution and creationism. All Thursday and waiting for the arrival of the pontiff. 
That day will begin early, 9 am, with flyers and principals in all faculties. Then comes the turn of 'the chapel sbattesimo university' students in clerical garb bless the audience with liters of vin santo. At noon, the protest will move out by the University where the volume will rise to the maximum for the 'siege sound. " At 14 and will suffer the "frocessione against the rights denied," march organized by the LGBT collective protest against a Pope "the bearer of dogma against the freedom of scientific thought and against the free circulation of knowledge ', which will cross the nearby district of San Lorenzo to return to the square of the Minerva, where the comedian Andrea Rivera will give its personal keynote. "We organized this day of protest in a very peaceful, creative and communicative," says George of the collective of Physics, one of the organizers of the protest, ensuring that "there will be moments of tension." Only 'complaints Minutes "at the pope, but also to the Minister for Universities and Research Mussi (" against the selection mechanisms for a real right to study) and from Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni ("for the security package and its security policies. ") At the university chapel air we breathe but completely different. Some guys are busy cleaning the interior of the church in view of the papal blessing. With them the activists of "Militia Christi" and "Communion and Liberation who are organizing a counter-protest on Thursday, the protesters .
Marcello Cini's letter to the Chancellor
This is the letter sent by Marcello Cini during the month of November 2007 to the Rector Renato Guarini, on the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at the University, the visit had been arranged for January 17, 2008. Later, dozens of other professors have signed (the end of the article you can 'read the letter of support to Cini that they wrote) and in January about 700 professors have endorsed the content.
* If Wisdom calls the Pope to leave home *
Mussi Marcello Cini
Mr. Rector, I learn from a memorandum dated November 1 AGI news agency that says, "is changed program of the inauguration 705esimo the Academic Year University of Rome La Sapienza, which initially included the presence of minister Mussi LectioMagistralis to listen to Pope Benedict XVI. " The pope "will be, but after the opening ceremony, and the Minister Fabio Mussi University instead there will be no more." As a professor emeritus of the University La Sapienza - resort in recent days fifty years after my call to join the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the suggestion of physical Edoardo Amaldi, Giorgio Salvini, Enrico Persico - I can not esprimerepubblicamente my indignation at your proposal, communicated to the Senate on October 23, clumsily repaired later with a patch that tries to hide the hole and at the same time it bears the majority of the political objective and the media. Not comment on the sad fact that you have been elected with the decisive contribution of a secular electorate. A Catholic Democrat - all represented by the example of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro nelcorso of his seven-year presidency of the Republic - would never dream of forgetting that since September 20, 1870 Rome is no longer the capital of the Papal States. I shall focus instead on the incredible breach of the traditional autonomy of universities - more than 705 years incarnated in the world by His Wisdom iniziativa.Sul formal plan, first of all. Although in the first centuries after the founding of universities theology has been taught alongside the humanities, philosophy, mathematics and natural, is not yesterday that this discipline is no more trace in the modern universities, at least in those states' public non-denominational. I do not know the status of the University of Regensburg, where Professor Ratzinger gave the keynote note which I shall discuss later, but I insist that as a rule it is only part of the religious instruction given in universities.
The themes that were the subject of the studies of Professor Ratzinger, however, should not fall under the topics of a lesson, much less of a keynote, held in a university the Italian Republic. Especially if one considers that, since the time of Descartes, was reached to end the conflict between knowledge and faith culminated in the condemnation of Galileo by the Holy Office, a division of spheres of competence between the Academy and Church. His blatant violation of the academic year during the inauguration of La Sapienza was regarded in the world as a step back in time three hundred years and more. On the substantive
then the implications would be even more devastating. Consider them starting right from the text of the keynote of Professor Ratzinger in Regensburg, from which presumably would not have deviated much that of Rome. In it is it clear that the policy of the papacy of Benedict XVI is based on the thesis that the division of the respective spheres of competence between faith and knowledge is no longer valid. "Deep ... it is - I quote - the encounter between faith and reason, between genuine enlightenment and religione.Partendo the very heart of Christian faith and, at the same time, the nature of greek thought now joined to faith, Manuel II was able to say: Not to act "with logos" is contrary to God's nature. "Do not insist on the dangers of this program in terms of politics and culture: just think of the reaction in the Muslim world that there would dall'accenno the difference between the Christian God and Allah - attributed to supposed rationality of the first in comparison to the unpredictable irrationality of the second - which would in turn gave rise to the meekness of the Christian and Islamic violence. It takes a lot of courage to support this view and hide under the mat the Crusades, the pogroms against the Jews, the extermination of the natives of the Americas, the slave trade, the stakes of the Christians have given the world. Here I am interested, however, that this encounter between faith and reason, a conception of science as follows ambitiparziali a broader and more general rational knowledge which they should be subordinate. "The reason for its modern natural science - in fact, concluded the Pope - with the inherent his Platonic element bears within itself a question which transcends all the possibilities of its methodology. It simply has to accept the rational structure of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a matter of fact, which is based on its methodology. But the question (why this did datodi) exists and needs to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought - to philosophy and theology. For philosophy and, in a different way, for theology, listening to the grandiesperienze and beliefs of the religious traditions of humanity, especially that of the Christian faith is a source of knowledge, and to ignore it in would be an unacceptable restriction of our listening and responding. "
Beyond these circumlocutions design shows that in his new role, the former head of the Holy Office did not forget the task that traditionally compete in it. That's always been and continues to be the expropriation of the sphere of the sacred inherent in the depth of feelings and emotions of every human being by an institution claiming the exclusivity of mediation between the human and the divino.Un 'ownership that ignores and demeans the many different historical and geographical forms of this sphere so intimate and delicate without respect for personal dignity and integrity of each, however, changed individuo.Ha strategy. No longer able to use stakes and corporal punishment has learned from Ulysses. He used the effigy of the Goddess of Enlightenment Reason as a Trojan horse to enter the citadel of scientific knowledge and put it in line. I am not exaggerating. What is more, just as an example, the explicit support of the pope gave to the so-called theory of Intelligent Design but the attempt - led among others by a clumsy denial of the historical evidence, a gross distortion of the contents of internal disputes the scientific community and the old trick of caricature of the positions of the opponent - to bring the science under the pseudo-rational dogmas of the religion? And how they should react colleagues biologists and their students face a more or less indirect attack on the Darwinian theory of biological evolution that underlies all over the world of modern evolutionary biology? I can not understand, therefore, the reasons for your proposal so improvident and detrimental to the image of La Sapienza in the world. The result of his initiative, even in watered down form the Pope's visit (with "a salute to the university community) after an inauguration illegal inevitably will, however, that the newspapers of the day dopotitoleranno (you can not expect much going for the subtle ): "The Pope opens academic year at La Sapienza University." Congratulations, Mr. Rector. The His portrait will be next to those of his predecessors as a symbol of the autonomy of culture and progress of science.
The letter of support to Marcello Cini
Rome November 23, 2007
Rector, with these few lines wishes to note that we fully share the point of critical Mr Marcello Cini who addressed the press about the staggering initiative involving the intervention of Pope Benedict XVI at the inauguration of the Academic Sapienza.Nulla to add to the arguments of Cini, except for one thing. On March 15, 1990, still Cardinal, in a speech in the city of Parma, Joseph Ratzinger has taken a statement by Feyerabend: "At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Ilprocesso against Galileo was reasonable and fair. " These words, as scientists faithful to reason and as teachers who dedicate their lives to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, offend us and we umiliano.In name of secularism of science and culture and respect of our University open to teachers and students of all faiths and of all ideologies, we hope that the incongruous event can still be canceled. The dutiful
we send greetings,
Gabriella Augusti Tocco, Luciano M. Barone, Carlo Bernardini, Maria GraziaBetti, Enrico Bonatti, Maurizio Bonora, Federico Bordi, Bruno Borgia, VandaBouche ', Cacciani Marco, Francesco Calogero, Paolo Calvani, Paolo Camiz, Mario Capizzi, Antonio Capone, Sergio Caprara, Marzio Cassander, ClaudioCastellani, Flippo Cesi, Ciapetti Guido, Giovanni Ciccotti, Guido Corbo ', Cosmelli Carlo, Antonio Degasperis. Francesco De Luca, Francesco De Martini, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Carlo Di Castro, Carlo Doglioni, Massimo Falcioni, Favini Bernardo, Valeria Ferrari, Fernando Ferroni, Andrea Frova, MarcoGrilli, Maria Grazia Ianniello, Egidio Longo, Stefano Lupi, MaurizioLusignoli, Luciano Maiani, Carlo Mariani, Enzo Marinari, Paola Maselli, Enrico Massaro, Paolo Mataloni, Mario Mattioli, Giovanni Organtini, PaolaPaggi, Giorgio Parisi, Gianni I, Silvano Petrarca, Giancarlo Poiana, Tersenghi Federico Ricci, Giovanni Rosa, Enzo Scandurra, Massimo Testa, Brunello Tirozzi, Rita Vargas, Miguel A. Virasoro, Angelo Vulpiani, Lucia Zanello.
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