The Colleges of Rome, between non-fiction and photography: two contests kick off to celebrate the centenary of the Università Cattolica.

Always prolific places of culture, the Colleges of the Catholic University are inexhaustible forges of ideas and proactivity. For 2022, the COI is organising two contests on the Rome campus to celebrate the centenary of the University between ethics and passion.

EDUCatt promotes and supports the initiative created by the COI – Consiglio Organizzativo Intercollegiale (Intercollegiate Organisational Council ) with the creation of a literary contest and a photographic contest aimed at the students hosted by the Colleges on Campus of the Catholic University of Rome.
The literary contest “Centenary: caring for the person between ethics and morals”, organised by the COI, aims to award prizes to the authors of scientific-literary non-fiction works that are related to the theme caring for the person between ethics and morals.
The world we know today, the liquid and mellifluous reality in which we are immersed, has always been faced with the continuous confrontation between morality and technical-scientific development. The latter, especially now, has had a considerable upsurge towards realities and new worlds that are not yet entirely without mystery to us. Today, especially in the health sector, one is faced with a constant confrontation between a morality that is as just and fair as possible, and an exponential growth in scientific and technological inputs.
What are the challenges now for mankind at the centre of the diatribe? How much can ethics influence scientific research and how far can the latter evolve independently before having to renew a confrontation with morality? Is it right to look for an intrinsic ethics in science or should we give rules, stakes, to the running train of technological and scientific revolutions? These are the questions underlying the contest.
In parallel, there is also a photographic contest, also devised by the IOC, entitled ‘Passion’ , which aims to remind the human soul what real passion means, and how it must be renewed every day, to generate a true and spontaneous feeling every day. This photographic contest wants to invite students to show, through photography, what true passion is, which is often obscured by the constraints we are subjected to and the models imposed on us by society.
Passion is one of the three words expounded by the Holy Father during the homily he presided over last 5 November on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. It is the boundless affection of a passionate heart that man needs today. It is needed to heal us and allow us to be reborn in this culture of discard and abandonment that we live today. But love and passion must never be mistaken for pious devotion, or worse still, for habit. True passion for one’s neighbour is renewed every day, even at the cost of suffering, even at the cost of not being able to get what one wants: true passion has no ulterior motive, true passion gladdens the heart.
The deadline for submitting materials is 17 March 2022.

To participate in the contests, it is necessary to read the regulations available in the dedicated web area.