Therefore it is necessary to be tireless in promoting a scientific culture capable of looking always at the whole person and at the whole of peoples, serving the universal good and solidarity. In this regard, great importance is attached to making progress in the dialogue between science and faith. We must work together to reestablish the connection between truth and values, between science and ethical commitment. We must all be truly convinced that progress is really such if it is at the service of the true and total well-being of individuals and of the whole human family . Although science's main task is to seek the truth in the free and legitimate liberty belonging to it, scientists are nevertheless not permitted to prescind from the ethical implications concerning the means of their research and the use of the truths they discover.
Ethical goodness is simply another name for truth sought by the practical intellect .