After recalling the new "humane sciences" in which the Gregorian University has opened faculties and courses over the last decades (psychology, social science and social communication), Benedict XVI stated that "just because such sciences concern man, they cannot help referring to God. Man, both in his inner life and in his outer life, cannot be fully understood unless one recognises he is open to transcendence". Then he further expounded this reflection by stating that "man’s fate without his reference to God, cannot be but the desolation of misery that leads to desperation. Only with reference to the God-Love that revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, can man find the meaning of his life and live in hope, although in the experience of the evils that hurt his personal life and the society in which he lives". (to be continued)
