"We are in a time of 'ecumenical dialogue' between Catholics and Protestants." These are some of the words pronounced by the professor of the School of TheologyJosé Ramón Villar, during the inaugural lecture he gave at the opening of the course of the high school Superior of Religious Sciences (ISCR) "San Francisco Javier" and the Superior Center of Theological programs of study (CSET) "San Miguel Arcángel" of Pamplona.

The events, which were held at the seminar Conciliar de Pamplona, began with a Eucharistic celebration presided over by the Archbishop of Pamplona, Monsignor Francisco Pérez.

The inaugural lecture was centered on the 500 years of the Lutheran Reformation and during it, Professor Villar summarized the way in which Catholicism has been related to the Protestant Reformation throughout these five centuries. He recalled that ecumenism affects the whole catholicity of the Church: "It challenges its capacity to integrate all that is authentically evangelical in one and in the other". And he affirmed that "these genuine values of each Christian confession, corrected in their unilaterality, must be able to be lived in a full communion of faith that allows us to share the same bread and drink the same cup, according to the beautiful expression of Paul VI".

During the academic ceremony, Ana Isabel Ávila, administrative assistant of ISCR "San Francisco Javier", and Iñaki Ilundáin, University Secretary of CSET "San Miguel Arcángel", read the respective 2016-17 course reports.

The School of Theology was represented by Gregorio Guitián and Eduardo Flandes, director of research and secretary of the School of Theology respectively.