Pope Francis held an audience on February 12th with participants in the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which is focused on the theme:

“Human Meanings and Challenges.” He said what is needed, “is to situate scientific and technological knowledge within a broader horizon of meaning, and thus to avert the hegemony of a technocratic paradigm.” He went on to say the main task of anthropologists is to develop “a culture that, by integrating the resources of science and technology, is cap-able of acknowledging and promoting the hu-man being in his or her irreducible specificity.”