Spiritual defender: Pope laments 'amnesia' about God during Spain trip

Friday, August 19, 2011

RAYLOKEAugust 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM
A CHANGED WORLD IN DEED. .... He urged the professors to not just educate today's young in the "technical ability" they may need to enter the workforce, but to guide them in pondering those loftier questions which he said embrace "the full measure of what it is to be human."
"We know that when mere utility and pure pragmatism become the principal criteria, much is lost and the results can be tragic," he said, adding: "From abuses associated with a science which acknowledges no limits beyond itself, to the political totalitarianism which easily arises when one eliminates any higher reference than the mere calculus of power."
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