H.E. Mons. Andrea Bellandi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno; Aura Miguel, Journalist, Vaticanist; Andrea Tornielli, Editorial Director of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See. Moderated by Andrea D’Auria, Director of the International Center of Communion and Liberation. 

The meeting aims to offer a glimpse into the thought of Benedict XVI, particularly regarding the relationship between reason and faith. In the teaching of the Bavarian theologian, there was always a concern to show how the event of faith “reawakens the spiritual senses of man” and his capacity for knowledge. In this sense, Joseph Ratzinger is a precursor and at the same time a realizer of the magisterium of the Second Vatican Council on the theme of the human person and revelation. Mons. Bellandi’s presentation will focus on Joseph Ratzinger’s fundamental theology, while Andrea Tornielli’s intervention will illustrate what the recently deceased Pope understood as a living encounter with an ecclesial reality where it is possible to have a faith experience. Journalist Aura Miguel will recount how Benedict XVI announced faith and demonstrated its reasonableness during his apostolic journeys.