Actas XII Católicos y Vida Pública |Organizar la esperanza para la comunión, la participación y la misión

99 la propuesta cristiana ante los desafíos de un mundo en cambio trust is at the core of every relationship. Trust is a master actually in building relationships, and I see that even in integrated dialogue. The prudence of a teacher, Paul VI stresses and a lot of prudence is needed here, and even a pedagogy of interreligious dialogue. Prudence strives to be aware of the sensitivities of the hearer, and requires that we adapt ourselves and the manner of our presentation in a very reasonable way. lf we are displicit to others, the door of the dialogue will be shut down. The dialogue, in the case of the little story with which I started this lecture, I said “no, no, just leave it, let’s go, let’s get away from this, we don’t want to enter into this discussion”, and then I said why not, this was the perfect situ to start this discussion on the angels. So these are really very important: clarity, confidence, meekness and you know the prudence of a teacher. Now we will go to the catholic university and interreligious dialogue, where do we fit as catholic institutions in interreligious dialogue? Is there anything in the documents of the church about interreligious dialogue, what can we apply to really be truthful to our name as catholic institutions?, Is there that which we can rightly be truthful to our catholic institution, and to this institution actually even more, because you are also a pontifical university. So I started chronologically again. I see that the holy fathers, each and every one of them, has contributed to interreligious dialogue, to the topic that I have under investigation. They are complementary, the holy fathers have their own charisma. They are not one against the other, but each contributes to the deposit of faith. So John Paul´s II Ex corde Ecclesiae and interreligious dialogues, John Paul´s II constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae of 1990 places the catholic university at the heart of the church, in fact, it is the church that births the university. I am thinking now of the medieval university, Bologna for example, or other medieval universities in Spain or in Belgium. They were birth by the church, and universities disseminated knowledge and kept culture alive. The catholic faith has always been in dialogue with reason, so faith and reason are the binomio, they are the duality where the catholic university had its foundation: faith and reason. And faith and reason require and fulfill each other. They’re not in conflict with each other, hence making them the two pillars of the catholic intellectual tradition, and also, of the catholic university. And now in academia we talk a lot about interdisciplinarity. The catholic university has that la tradición intelectual católica como medio para el diálogo...

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