Cardinal Vincent Nichols has praised St Mary’s University, of which he is chancellor, for preserving its Catholic identity.
His remarks were contained in an address to graduates at a degree ceremony on Thursday.
The cardinal said: “There is nothing narrow or insular in this Catholic vision of education. It is open to all truly human endeavour.”
Cardinal Nichols praised St Mary’s as “a most important point of contact” between British higher education and the Church. He added: “That engagement, if it is to be fruitful, requires that wonderful combination of openness and faithfulness: openness to the other, to every academic discipline, to the wide range of challenges facing our world, facing every individual today; and faithfulness to who we are and the richness of truth and beauty that the eyes of faith reveal in the soul of every person and in the created world and its unfolding.”
