Rome, Italy, Mar 13, 2009 / 20:59 pm
During his remarks at the opening of the International University Forum of Campidoglio, whose theme is “Gospel: Culture and Cultures,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone underscored that the “Gospel reaches man at his specific point in history,” and that culture “represents the way for encountering the truth, so man can develop himself and the human family.”
If in the past, Cardinal Bertone explained, “culture was an expression of the civility of a people or a community, with its values and customs; in today’s society the idea of the primacy of culture as knowledge is emerging, to the point of assuming a genetic role in civility.”