by Sandro D. Fossemò
(Translation by Gentile Anna)
“Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.”
(Albert Einstein)
Of course we are used to see a meeting between a theologian and a philosopher, but having a great representative of the church like Pope Ratzinger and a heir of the Frankfurt thought like Habermas , no doubt things change becoming more interesting. In January 2004, cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, afterwards turning into Pope Benedetto XVI, had a fairly spoken interview at the Catholic Academy in Munich with the ‘methodical atheist’ Philosopher Jurgen Habermas, one of the top secular rationalist’s of our days.
