Mattarella for the 100th anniversary of the “Cattolica”: “We are a community everyone depends on the others”

We are a community, each depends on the other. Sergio Mattarella, in connection from the Quirinal Palace, at the inauguration of the centenary of the academic year of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, puts the community at the center to talk about Covbid. «The contribution of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – says the President of the Republic – has expressed itself and continues to express itself with specific characters and values» linked «to the life of our national community. There is this sense of community that our country has seen strongly reaffirmed in its fundamental importance during the pandemic that reminded us how each of us depends on everyone else ». And he insists that “the pandemic teaches us that we are strong with others”. The President of the Republic then spoke of the feeling “of restlessness: this condition – he said – of feeling like citizens of the world and at the same time pilgrims within it is common to everyone, whatever the beliefs that are professed because it reflects the sense of incompleteness that accompanies the human condition, which pushes to seek new knowledge. A sense of non-fulfillment at the base of every scientific research effort in every field and it is this character that makes universities attractive and their fundamental action for the present and future of the country “. Then, another significant passage on the role of the university: “To be educators you need to give credit to young people who always keep the university young”.