” “"The Father of the Cistercian Order, Saint Bernard, in his time said Benedict XVI at the abbey of Heiligenkreuz yesterday , fought against the detachment of an objectifying rationality from the spirituality of the Church. Our situation today, although different, has quite a few similarities with it". Actually, "in the frenzy to have a rigorous scientificity acknowledged in the modern sense, theology can lose the breathe of faith", but "a theology which no longer breathes in the space of faith is no longer theology; it ends up reducing itself to a number of disciplines which may or may not be related to each other". "For a call to priesthood or to religion to be faithfully sustained all through one’s life, today he added , education must combine faith and reason, heart and mind, life and thinking. A life in Christ’s following needs an integration of one’s whole personality. Where the intellectual dimension is neglected, a form of charitable infatuation would too easily be born, which almost only feeds on emotions and states of mind that cannot be sustained all through one’s life. And where the spiritual dimension is neglected, a rarefied rationalism is born that, because of its coldness and detachment, can never lead to one’s enthusiastically giving oneself up to God". ” “
