“That even in the face of such radical skepticism, it is still necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason, and to do so in the context of the tradition of the Christian faith.”

“While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. We will succeed in doing so only if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the self-imposed limitation of reason to the empirically falsifiable, and if we once more disclose its vast horizons. In this sense, theology rightly belongs in the university and within the wide-ranging dialogue of sciences, not merely as a historical discipline and one of the human sciences, but precisely as theology, as inquiry into the rationality of faith.”

Aula Magna of the University of Regensberg, Benedict XVI.

TEXTS BY POPE BENEDICT XVI

Speeches to Universities and the Youths of the World:

XXI World Youth Day, 2006
XXII World Youth Day, 2007
Meeting with the Youth, Brazil 2007
XXIII World Youth Day, 2008
XXIV World Youth Day, 2009
Speech to the Spanish Youth, Spain 2009

Speeches and Messages to the University System:

Inauguration of the Academic Year of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome (November 25, 2005)
Meeting with the representatives of science in the Aula Magna of the University of Regensberg (September 12, 2006)
Visit to the Pontifical Lateran University at the beginning of the Academic Year (October 21, 2006)
Meeting with the representatives of the world of culture at the University of Pavia (April 22, 2007)
To the participants in the First European Meeting of University Lecturers (June 23, 2007)
Prepared speech for the Sapienza University of Rome (cancelled visit on January 15, 2008)
Meeting with the representatives from the world of culture at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris (September 12, 2008)

Meeting with the representatives from the UNIV International Congress (2006, 2007, and 2008)

Fundamentals of Social Coexistence:

A Philosophical Dialogue between Joseph Ratzinger and Jürgen Habermas (January 19, 2004)
To members of the International Theological Commission (October 5, 2007)
To the participants in the Congress ´´Values and Perspectives for Tomorrow´s Europe - 50 years of the Treaty of Rome,´´ sponsored by the Commission of the Bishops´ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) (March 24, 2007)