"As long as the Christian faith is lively and can generate culture, neither the reduction of man to nature nor a totally relativistic or nihilistic perspective will fully establish itself". This is the belief of card. Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome, who spoke today at the European meeting of university lecturers. According to Ruini, "the question of man is, for man himself, certainly unavoidable, but "the response we give to the question about man is affected by our options and by our personal involvement": "No one, therefore, either believer or non believer, relativist or non relativist, scientist or philosopher or theologian admonished the cardinal , can assume he is exempted by such human condition and consider his beliefs about man purely ‘neutral’ and ‘lay’, claiming that only the others rely on pre-established options or even prejudices". Only man, as "the way of the Church", said Ruini, quoting John Paul II’s Redemptor Hominis, can and must "be also the great, common object of survey of the culture of our time and in particular of university research" (continued).
