Science and experience
OPEN TO THE ABSOLUTE
WCM 2025
November 3 – 6, 2025
Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190, 00163 Rome – Italy
An attempt to provide answers through interdisciplinary dialogue.
In order to think deeply, it is necessary to consider very seriously all dimensions of life and to ensure that nothing is lost.
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Speakers
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Topic areas
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Languages
Tentative schedule
Topic areas
Positive and negative consequences of scientific and technological progress.
The understanding and possible modification of our world bring great advantages, but the predominance of the empirical sciences poses the risk of reducing all knowledge and decision-making processes to the demands of their method. If human beings conceive and create science and technology, how are they to exercise their primacy over them? Under what aspects do they surpass and transcend their own creations and are not their slaves, but rather standards for their findings, imposing their vision: not everything that can be done should be done?
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- Methodological difference between natural sciences and human sciences
- Human intelligence and artificial intelligence Technooptimism: reality or myth?
- Technology, freedom and personal fulfillment
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Enhance
Metaphysics, mysticism and epistemology in the human sciences.
The capacity to conceive an absolute reality as the model, origin and end of the cosmos and all that it contains, the receptive sensitivity to an intimate impression that affects our being and acting, and the attempt to base our cognitive act on a broader perspective are the indeclinable signs -as old as they are new- of a consciousness that proceeds in search of the fullness of truth, goodness and beauty. This vital attitude generates answers to the problems that beset us today.
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- Mystical character of the human person: consciousness and freedom
- Educational model at the service of the family
- Transcendence and experience in the sciences of art and culture
- How to deal with the ideological excess of the human sciences.
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Dialogue
Person and relation: current horizons and challenges
The person lives and develops within the framework of the different levels of his or her humanity and of his or her various areas and dimensions of communicative interaction. This diversity of impressions and fields of expression impels us to find a healthy order and balance, giving the right weight to each area. Above all, the aspiration to perfect love demands of us a relational dynamic with others that embraces both the divine and the human, the infinite and the finite.
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- Towards an integral health: physical, psychological and spiritual
- Sacral experience of human living
- Society, politics and ideology
- Globalization and ecology
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Fernando Rielo, 1923-2004: thinker, humanist, poet
Fernando Rielo has passed on to us a vast patrimony of conceptual, artistic and practical creativity as the fruit of his intense experience of mystical filiation since childhood: in short, a life filled with a divine presence that he welcomed and embraced with all the passion of a son in love. The strength of an unfailing love that receives exquisite gifts and wants to offer God and human beings only the best inspires and animates all his intellectual, lyrical and religious work. We explore some aspects of this inexhaustible treasure.
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- Life and testimonies
- Poetry, metaphysics, mysticism, and anthropology.
- Education, psychoethics, syneidotherapy and methodology
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Transform
What are the constituent elements of the human being, of the person? How should the ultimate goal of our knowledge and efforts be conceived?
Many diagnose the current moment of culture and society in terms of a serious anthropological crisis in which a strong ideologizing pressure and a powerful “technological Prometheism” converge.
Our era is not characterized by promoting the search for metaphysical foundations that define us and give us meaning, but by exploring the possibilities suggested by the symbiosis of technology with social engineering.
These accelerated impulses often almost ignore some central questions that determine our horizon: What are the constitutive elements of the human being, of the person? How is the ultimate goal of our knowledge and efforts to be conceived?
We consider, in this sense, the keys to a mutual respect and encounter through a dialogue that brings light and a solidly grounded epistemology. In this way, we will be able to understand the person more integrally and improve his or her individual and social health in the face of the high rate of reductionism, neurosis, imbalances, conflicts and the closed-mindedness of self-referentiality.
The purpose of the conference is to seriously consider the interrelation between the experimental sciences – with technological advances based on physical realities – and the sciences whose object of study is the deep, vital and existential experience of human beings.
In short, does humanity exist only in and for the world, with its expiration, or does it have a wider field of vision and action, open, even, to infinity?
Our reflection must therefore address the challenges we face today in the development of pedagogy, psychology, ethics, law, ecology, psychiatry, health sciences, political science, economics, sports and the arts, taking into account all the relational spheres of the person: with oneself, with the divine, with others and with nature.
Committees
In alphabetical order:
Santiago Acosta Aide, Rector of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador.
José Eduardo Afonso Furtado, Rector of the Theological University School of Cape Verde.
Alberto Carrara, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, Italy.
Riccardo Colasanti, Dean of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico.
Adela Cortina Orst, Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy University of Valencia, Spain.
Wilhelm Danca, Dean of the Faculty of Theology University of Bucharest, Member Romanian Academy and Academy of Sciences and Arts of Salzburg, Austria.
Santiago García-Jalón de La Lama, Rector Magnífico Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain.
Luján González Portela, Pro-Rector Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador – Sede Santo Domingo, Ecuador.
Jesús Muñoz Díez, Pro-rector Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador – Sede Ibarra.
Daniel Sada Castaño, Rector Magnífico Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain.
Ľubomír Jozef Žák, Faculty of Theology, Palacky University, Olomouc and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
In alphabetical order:
José Eduardo Afonso Furtado, Rector of the Theological University School of Cape Verde.
Robert Badillo, Professor St. John’s University, New York, USA.
Juan Jose Blazquez Ortega, Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion, University of Puebla UPAEP.
Alberto Carrara, Philosophical Anthropology, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.
Riccardo Colasanti, Dean of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad UPAEP, Puebla.
Marie-Jeanne Coutagne, Facultés Loyola Paris, France.
Wilhelm Danca, Dean, Faculty of Theology, Bucharest, member of the Romanian Academy, Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria.
Mariano Delgado, Faculty of Theology of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Cristina Díaz de la Cruz, General Director of University Missions, UTPL, Ecuador.
Markus Enders, Faculty of Theology of Freiburg, Germany.
Ascensión Escamilla Valera, Professor, San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University, Madrid. Director FFR.
Cornelia Esianu, Professor of Philosophy, Adult Education Centers of Vienna, Austria.
Lourdes Grosso García, Professor, San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University, Madrid, Spain.
Benito Marín Serrano, Director of the Fernando Rielo Chair, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain.
Camille Lacau Saint Guily, Faculty of Arts Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
José María López Sevillano, President of the Idente School.
Ricardo Piñero Moral, Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts University of Navarra, Spain.
Juana Sánchez-Gey Venegas, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Director of the Aula de Pensamiento FFR
Peter Schallenberg, Faculty of Theology Paderborn, Germany.
Marco Viscomi, PhD in Theoretical Philosophy, Italy.
Ľubomír Jozef Žák, Faculty of Theology, Palacky University, Olomouc and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Presidency:
Luis Casasús Latorre, President Fernando Rielo Foundation (FFR).
Juana Sánchez-Gey Venegas, Vicepresident FFR. Professor of Philosophy Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Fernando Real Ferrero, Vice President FFR.
Director:
José María López Sevillano, President of the Idente School.
Executive committee:
Ascensión Escamilla Valera, Director FFR.
Riccardo Colasanti, Dean of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad UPAEP, Puebla.
Mª Fernanda Lacilla Ramas, Director Aula de Pedagogía FFR.
Rose B. Calabretta, Idente Roma School, Italy.
Alberto Giralda, Idente School Prague, Czech Republic.
Cornelia Helfrich, Idente School Berlin, Germany.
Annick Johnson, Idente School Istanbul, Turkey.
Pascale Vincette, idente School Paris, France.
General Coordination:
Eleanna Guglielmi
Marco Viscomi
Administrative Secretariat: Fondazione idente di studi e di ricerca (FISER)
Carmen Quiroga Pereira
Claudia Reale
IT management:
Rebecca Sattler
Graphic Design and Communication: Misiones Universitarias· Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL)
Milenny Soto Alvarado
Luis Daniel Pinta Paute
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