Pope urges university students to help heal culture, identity crisis

Published: 2006-10-23

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI urged university students to help heal "the crises of culture and identity" by searching for truth and meaning in their studies and their lives. Inaugurating the academic year in Rome, where university classes begin in October, Pope Benedict visited Pontifical Lateran University Oct. 21 and met students and professors from all the city's pontifical universities after an Oct. 23 Mass. In speeches to both groups, the pope said education should hone a student's thirst for truth and for meaning, especially when his or her studies are taking place at a Vatican-chartered university. When the student bodies and staffs are combined, the pontifical universities in Rome make up a group of about 15,000 people from all over the world.

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