Such is the humanism of Pedro Poveda in our century in which man, stunned by the enormous conquests of nature, achieved by his intelligence, hesitates before the meaning he has to give to his existence."
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Paul Poupard
Paul Poupard, Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris in 1974, on the centenary of the birth of Pedro Poveda.
"Our humanism becomes Christianity, our Christianity becomes centered on God; in such sort that we may say, to put it differently: a knowledge of man is a prerequisite for a knowledge of God. (Paul VI).