The Accademia del Redentore began the new school year with a Mass presided over by Card. Tagle. The college principal said higher education should come out of the ivory tower and dialogue with the world.
(Vatican News Network)When Pope Francis received the Redemptorists not long ago, he called them “ethical teachers” and thanked them for their service to the Church. Alfonso College, its academic level is “impressive”. It is in this context that the College has started a new academic year. On the morning of October 26, card. Tagle presided over the Holy Mass for the new school year, then Father Amarante, president of Alfonso College, and others gave the opening speeches.
There are 259 students in the new school year, receiving various levels of education. Half come from Europe and the other half from Asia, America and Africa. Don Amarante, President, recalled the rich jubilee of last year on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Alphonsus as Master of the Church and also presented the plans for the next four years.
Father Amarante pointed out that in times of global crisis and changing times, such as ecological transitions, today’s professors are different from their previous lifelong commitment to a single noble project, often disconnected from the real needs of the community, enclosed in a ivory tower, not connected to Collaboration with colleagues or students. Instead, think now of the College’s mission, “in relation to the public interest, the management of cultural heritage, the protection of life and health”. In short, “in view of the public good, we must act in dialogue with society and the world”.
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