Teresa Kok

APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO MÜNCHEN, ALTÖTTING AND REGENSBURG (SEPTEMBER 9-14, 2006)
MEETING WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF SCIENCE
LECTURE OF THE HOLY FATHER
Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Faith, Reason and the University Memories and Reflections
Your Eminences, Your Magnificences, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a moving experience for me to be back again in the university and to be able once again to give a lecture at this podium. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn.

That was in 1959, in the days of the old university made up of ordinary professors. The various chairs had neither assistants nor secretaries, but in recompense there was much direct contact with students and in particular among the professors themselves. We would meet before and after lessons in the rooms of the teaching staff. There was a lively exchange with historians, philosophers, philologists and, naturally, between the two theological faculties. Once a semester there was a dies academicus, when professors from every faculty appeared before the students of the entire university, making possible a genuine experience of universitas – something that you too, Magnificent Rector, just mentioned – the experience, in other words, of the fact that despite our specializations which at times make it difficult to communicate with each other, we made up a whole, working in everything on the basis of a single rationality with its various aspects and sharing responsibility for the right use of reason – this reality became a lived experience. The university was also very proud of its two theological faculties (more…)

Ucapan YB Teresa Kok, Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Dalam Perbahasan Usul 18 (1) Yang Dibawa Oleh YB Daripada Kubang Kerian Mengenai Kenyataan Yang Dibuat Oleh Pope Benedict XVI Pada 16 September 2006


Datuk yang diPertua, saya menyertai perbahasan usul tergempar yang dibawa oleh YB dari Kubang Kerian dengan hati yang berat dan kesal. Saya merasa kesal kerana kita membahas satu isu yang tidak merupakan tujuan sebenar Pope Benedict XVI, selain itu, kita juga membahaskan satu isu yang telah dipohon maaf oleh Vatican dan Pope Benedict XVI sebanyak dua kali selepas petikannya disalah-fahamkan oleh media dan pihak-pihak tertentu.


Sebelum kita membahaskan ucapan Pope Benedict XVI, kita mesti baca teks ucapannya yang sebenar dan juga mesti faham ucapan Pope Benedict XVI yang menimbulkan kontroversi ini sebenarnya disampaikan dalam satu forum di University Regensburg di Negeri German. Pope Benedict XVI merupakan seorang pensyarah Theology ataupun Teolog, beliau sebenarnya dijemput untuk memberi kuliah akademik yang bertema “Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections” ataupun dalam Bahasa Malaysia “Iman, Akal dan Universiti” di universiti lama yang beliau pernah berkhidmat. (more…)