The chairs Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini and St. Pedro Poveda of the Pontifical University of Salamanca have brought together in two volumes the reflections and considerations of various experts on poverty and Christian life on the one hand, and vulnerability and care on the other.
The option of the poor
The first of them The option of the poorThe book, The Option for the Poor in the Pastoral Ministry of Cardinal Ruffini, brings together the conferences of a series of conferences held in 2022 under the title The Option for the Poor in the Pastoral Ministry of Cardinal Ruffini. The conference was attended, among others, by the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Bishop Matteo Maria Zuppi.
The book focuses on the magisterium of Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini and his ministry in favor of the poor. In this regard, the director of the Ruffini Chair, José Antonio Calvo, recalled that Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini "tirelessly sowed the word of God in the hearts of many men and women who lacked almost everything".
Vulnerability. Perspectives from theology, spirituality and education.
On the other hand, the other volume, Vulnerability. Perspectives from theology, spirituality and education. The book gathers the reflections of several professors from philosophical, theological, spiritual and pedagogical perspectives. It also includes the last lecture of the French theologian Joseph Caillot, who said goodbye to his faculty, ill with ALS.
A book, coordinated by the Chair of St. Pedro Poveda, which shows that "all Theology must have a pastoral character, that is, be born and live in the space of contact between the revelation of God and the concrete life of men to reflect on the salvific history of God with men that takes place at every moment, as the Dean of the Faculty of Theology pointed out in the presentation of both books, which "are situated in this space, specifically, "in the space that defines the poverty that weighs on certain sectors of humanity and on the vulnerability of the men and women who make it up".
