Pastoral ministry in response to the questions of modern science is the question debated by bishops, theologians, priests, men and women religious, lay faithful, and representatives of science and of political and cultural life, during the Pastoral Theological Week recently held in Zagreb. The aim of the Week was to enter, in the framework of pastoral work, into fruitful dialogue with scientific disciplines and advances, as also with the challenges posed by new cultural circumstances. From the meeting emerged a new consciousness of how important it is for the Church to understand the new breakthroughs of science to be able the more easily to observe, foster and interpret them in the light of the Christian Revelation, ethics and Christian thought in general. This led to a first suggestion. “Theology explains Slavko Antunovic ought not to regard science as a source of fear or danger, as is very often the case in the community of the Church; theology, to be able to speak of God in an authentic and effective way in our culture today must speak of the Christian image of God. On the other hand, the unilateral use of science leads to the impoverishment of reality and a reduction of man”.
