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Catholic Identity College Guide
See how Catholic universities answer 10 questions about their Catholic identity.
BY The Register Always in 'Resources' Above
October 18-24, 2009 Issue |
Posted 10/13/09 at 10:04 AM
See the print version here.
The National Catholic Register and Faith & Family college guide is made possible through the cooperation of bishops, college presidents, our benefactors, and our advertisers. This year, 30 schools agreed to take our survey.
Below find:
The Schools
4210 Harding Road
Nashville, TN 37205
(615) 297-7545
AquinasCollege.edu
Enrollment: 826
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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P.O. Box 1126
3001 South Federal Blvd.
Denver, CO 80236
(303) 937-4420
AugustineInstitute.org
Enrollment: 70
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
N/A * Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
N/A * Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mass: “We strongly encourage all our students to frequent the sacraments and to adore Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament oratory. Although we do not have a full-time chaplain on our own campus, we connect our students with local parishes for daily Mass and local priests and religious for confession and spiritual direction.”
Health: “We do not provide student health services. But if we did, we certainly would exclude all referrals to abortion clinics.”
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5050 Ave Maria Blvd.
Ave Maria, FL 34142
(877) AVE-UNIV (283-8648)
AveMaria.edu
Enrollment: 701; 560 undergraduate; 141 graduate
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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100 Belmont-Mount Holly Road
Belmont, NC 28012
(888) 222-0110
BelmontAbbeyCollege.edu
Enrollment: 1,496 (793 traditional students; 703 Adult degree students)
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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1020 North Second St.
Atchison, KS 66002
(913) 367-5340
Benedictine.edu
Enrollment: 1,347
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
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120 East Colonial
Highway
Hamilton, VA
20158-9012
(888) 254-4238, ext. 700
CDU.edu
Enrollment: 1,200
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ *Mandatum Required
+ * Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture: *
N/A Mass and Confession
N/A Speakers Vetted
N/A Unobjectionable Clubs
N/A No Coed Dorms
N/A Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mandatum
Required & Theologians’ Oath: Since our theology faculty are
primarily adjunct, the mandatum is taken
in the diocese of their full-time employment.
Campus Culture: CDU is
an online university.
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620 Michigan Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20064
(202) 319-5000
CUA.edu
Enrollment: 6,705; 3,469 undergraduates; 3,236 graduate students
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
- * Mandatum Required
- * Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mandatum
Required: Catholic theologians must receive a “canonical mission”
from the local bishop/chancellor that obliges them to “teach in the name of the
Church” — it is different from the mandatum.
Theologians’ Oath: The
Catholic faculty recite the profession of faith in the presence of and along
with the local bishop/chancellor and president at the opening Mass of each
academic year. Catholic faculty have not been required to take the oath of
fidelity because of the canonical mission/nihil obstat binding the
ecclesiastical faculties.
No Coed Dorms: We have
both single-sex residence halls as well as residence halls with floors
segregated by gender. New residence halls are under construction.
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134 Christendom Drive
Front Royal, VA 22630
(800) 877-5456
Christendom.edu
Enrollment: 422
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture: *
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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3020 Lubbock Ave.
Fort Worth, TX 76109
(817) 923-8459; (800) 583-6489
CSTM.edu
Enrollment: 45 undergraduates; 67 common-tradition students (adult education noncredit bearing
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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2755 Station Ave.
Center Valley, PA 18034
(877) 4DESALES
DeSales.edu
Enrollment: 2,235 (undergraduate and graduate)
(1,450 undergraduates)
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
- * Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Catholic Faculty: The
university does not have those statistics.
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1235 University Blvd.
Steubenville, OH 43952
(800) 783-6220
Franciscan.edu
Enrollment: 2,450
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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33 Prospect Hill Road
Cromwell, CT 06416-2005
(860) 632-3010
HolyApostles.edu
Enrollment: 308
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
N/A No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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2001 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Suite 511
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 416-1441
IPSciences.edu
Enrollment: 60
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
N/A No Coed Dorms
N/A Health Services Okay
What's this?
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620 Michigan Ave., NE,
McGivney Hall
Washington, DC 20064
(202) 526-3799
JohnPaulII.edu
Enrollment: 110
The Institution:
N/A * President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
N/A * Mandatum Required
N/A * Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ * Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
N/A No Coed Dorms
N/A Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
President’s Oath, Mandatum Required, Theologians’ Oath: The institute is a graduate, theological,
pontifical institute (not a university), founded by Pope John Paul II. With its
central mission/goal of providing a comprehensive understanding of marriage and
family that is faithful to the teaching of Catholic magisterial tradition, any
institute faculty member is such only because he or she upholds this mission
along with an expertise they offer. All the institute’s professors have
received approval from the local bishop and the Vatican’s Congregation for
Catholic Education.
Mass and
Confession: An institute Mass is
celebrated weekly; the many daily Masses and confession times at the adjacent
Basilica of the National Shrine are frequented.
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10174 Old Grove Road,
Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92131
(858) 653-6740
JPCatholic.com
Enrollment: 80
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
N/A * Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Health Services Okay:
All students manage their own health care, dependent on their parents’
health-care insurance.
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511 Kearsarge Mountain Road
Warner, NH 03278
(603) 456-2656
Magdalen.edu
Enrollment: 65
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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16300 Old Emmitsburg Road
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
(800) 448-4347
MSMary.edu
Enrollment: approx. 2,100 total (1,680 undergraduate)
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Dorms: “Women are on one floor, men are on another floor.”
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1200 Lantana St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78407
(361) 289-9095
COLCC.com
Enrollment: 20 (projected 2009-2010)
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
N/A * Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mandatum: “The local bishop does not require a mandatum; if he did, we would require it.”
Dorms: “At this time we have only one dorm, so men and women are separated by floor. As we grow and build new dorms, we will not have co-ed dorms.”
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4123 Woodland Drive
New Orleans, LA 70103
(504) 394-7744
OLHCC.edu
Enrollment: 1,250
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
N/A * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
No Coed Dorms: We do not have dorms; we are a commuter college.
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P.O. Box 249
18 Karol Wojtyla Square
Barry’s Bay, Ontario
K0J 1B0 Canada
(613) 756-3082
SeatOfWisdom.org
Enrollment: 75 full-time, 25 part-time
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
- * Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mandatum: “Both our new bishop and OLSWA would like the school to have the mandatum and are working to put this in place.”
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1900 W. MacArthur St.
Shawnee, OK 74804-2499
(888) STGREGS
StGregorys.edu
Enrollment: 700
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ * Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Oath: “The local bishop has conferred the mandatum through an interview with proposed faculty members, conducted either by the bishop personally or by his appointed vicar general.”
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300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA 15650
(724) 532-6600
StVincent.edu
Enrollment: 1,800
The Institution:
- * President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
President: “The president is prepared to take the oath of fidelity at any time; however, this was not requested by the local bishop, who did preside at the inauguration.”
Oath: “Our theology professors who teach in the seminary take the oath of fidelity, but those theology professors who teach only in the college are not required to take the oath, as stipulated by canon law.”
Dorms: “Students are segregated by floor or wing requiring card access, and we strictly enforce all visitation policies.”
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330 Southern Catholic
Drive
Dawsonville, GA 30534
(866) 722-2003
SouthernCatholic.org
Enrollment: 217
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
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10,000 North Ojai Road
Santa Paula, CA 93060
(805) 525-4417
ThomasAquinas.edu
Enrollment: 350
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ * Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
Mandatum Required: Since our archdiocese grants the mandatum only to those with a terminal degree in theology, we do publicly require it of such faculty members. In addition, we require that all Catholic faculty take the Oath of Fidelity and make a Profession of Faith. a terminal degree in theology, we do publicly require it of such faculty members.”
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6 Manchester St.
Merrimack, NH 03054
(603) 880-8308
ThomasMoreCollege.edu
Enrollment: 93
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
Close
1845 East Northgate
Drive
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 721-5000
UDallas.edu
Enrollment: 2,977
The Institution:
- * President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
- * Mandatum Required
- * Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s comments:
President’s Oath: The
president is prepared to make the profession and take the oath at the bishop’s
request.
Mandatum Required:
All members of the theology department had a mandatum, which is
a personal, not an institutional, requirement.
Theologians’ Oath:
Canon law calls for a profession of faith, not the oath of fidelity.
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1531 I St., 2nd Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 443-4760
UniversityofSacramento.org
Enrollment: 177)
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
N/A Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
N/A Health Services Okay
What's this?
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3800 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 525-3500, (800) 856-8565 (admissions)
StThom.edu
Enrollment: 3,246
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s Comments:
Dorms: The university maintains living areas for undergraduate students. These include dormitory/residence rooms, co-ops, and apartments. “Only one dorm, but men and women are separated by floors and by wings.”
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2020 East Maple St. N.W.
North Canton, OH 44720
(800) 362-9846
Walsh.edu
Enrollment: 2,874
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
- * No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
School’s Comments:
Dorms: “All dorms have single-sex wings and/or floors. Some residence halls are four-person apartments that are single-sex, as well.”
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163 Leedy Drive
P.O. Box 750
Lander, WY 82520
(307) 332-2930
WyomingCatholicCollege.com
Enrollment: 100
The Institution:
+ President’s Oath
+ Catholic Board
+ Catholic Faculty
+ Mandatum Required
+ Theologians’ Oath
Campus Culture:
+ Mass and Confession
+ Speakers Vetted
+ Unobjectionable Clubs
+ No Coed Dorms
+ Health Services Okay
What's this?
Close
How to Participate in the Guide
To be added to our list of Catholic colleges and
universities, a school must answer the survey questionnaire. N/A (not applicable) answers must be explained. If so desired, No answers may also be explained. (See the guide for examples of explanations.) Send answers to:
Robyn Lee
Register College Survey
432 Washington Ave
North Haven, CT
06473
RLee at
NCRegister.com
Fax:
203 230 3838
The Survey
This National Catholic Register and Faith & Family resource is made possible through the cooperation of bishops, college presidents, our benefactors and our advertisers. This year, 30 schools went on record in answer to these questions:
Text of the survey we sent to Catholic colleges.
1. Did the president make the public profession of faith and take the oath of fidelity?
2. Is the majority of the board of trustees Catholic?
3. Is the majority of the faculty Catholic?
4. Do you publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum?
5. Did all Catholic theology professors take the oath of fidelity?
6. Do you provide daily Mass and posted times (at least weekly) for individual confession?
7. Do you exclude advocates of abortion, euthanasia, or cloning as commencement speakers or recipients of honorary degrees?
8. Do you exclude sponsoring pro-abortion campus groups?
9. Do you exclude coed dorms?
10. Do your student health services exclude referrals to abortion businesses?
Questionnaire Sources
The Catholic Identity College Survey offers objective questions about a university’s Catholic identity. We designed the survey so that a “YES” answer reflects essential elements of the renewal of Catholic identity called for by Pope John Paul II’s 1990 apostolic constitution on higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (Out of the Heart of the Church), its 2000 Application to the United States, canon law, and other
Church documents.
The Institution
• President’s Oath: Canon 833:
The president of a Catholic university is personally bound to make a profession
of faith, according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See, in the
presence of the chancellor or diocesan bishop or a delegate at the beginning of
the term of office.
The
Profession of Faith and the Oath of Fidelity, Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1989: The obligation of a special oath of fidelity
has been extended to presidents of Catholic universities.
• Catholic
Board: U.S. Application: To the extent possible, the majority of the board of trustees should
be Catholics committed to the Church.
• Catholic
Faculty: U.S. Application: The university should strive to recruit and appoint Catholics as professors
so that, to the extent possible, those committed to the witness of the faith
will constitute a majority of the faculty.
• Mandatum Required: Canon 812: It is necessary that Catholic theologians have a
mandatum from the diocesan bishop.
Pope John
Paul II (to American bishops, 2004): By their very nature, Catholic colleges and universities are called to
offer an institutional witness of fidelity to Christ and to his word as it
comes to us from the Church, a public witness expressed in the canonical requirement
of the mandatum.
U.S.
Application: Both the university
and the bishops, aware of the contributions made by theologians to Church and
academy, have a right to expect them to present authentic Catholic teaching.
Catholic professors of the theological disciplines have a corresponding duty to
be faithful to the Church’s magisterium as the authoritative interpreter of
sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition.
U.S.
Application: Catholic students
have a right to receive from a university instruction in authentic Catholic
doctrine and practice, especially from theologians.
Mandatum
text: I hereby declare my role and responsibility as a
teacher of a theological discipline within the full communion of the Church. As
a teacher of a theological discipline, therefore, I am committed to teach
authentic Catholic doctrine and to refrain from putting forth as Catholic
teaching anything contrary to the Church’s magisterium.
U.S.
Application: If a particular
professor lacks a mandatum and continues to teach a theological discipline,
the university must determine what further action may be taken in accordance
with its own mission and statutes.
•
Theologians’ Oath: Canon 833:
Catholic theologians are personally bound to make a profession of faith,
according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See, in the presence of the
university president if he is a priest, or the diocesan bishop or a delegate,
at the beginning of their term of office.
The
Profession of Faith and the Oath of Fidelity, Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1989: The obligation of a special oath of fidelity
has been extended to Catholic theology professors.
Campus Culture
• Mass and Confession: U.S. Application: Catholic students have a right to be provided
with opportunities to practice the faith through participation in Mass, the
sacraments, religious devotions, and other authentic forms of Catholic
spirituality. The university shall make provision for effective campus ministry
programs, including the celebration of the sacraments, especially the Eucharist
and penance, other liturgical celebrations, and opportunities for prayer and
spiritual reflection.
• Speakers
Vetted: The U.S. Bishops’ 2004 “Catholics in Political Life”: Catholic institutions should not honor those who
act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given
awards, honors or platforms that would suggest support for their actions.
•
Unobjectionable Clubs: U.S. Application: It is important for Catholic universities to implement in practical
terms their commitment to the essential elements of Catholic identity,
including activities of officially recognized student and faculty organizations
and associations.
• No Coed
Dorms: U.S. Application: It is important for Catholic universities to implement in practical
terms their commitment to the essential elements of Catholic identity,
including the commitment to create a campus culture and environment that is
expressive and supportive of a Catholic way of life.
• Health
Services Okay: U.S. Application: It is important for Catholic universities to implement in practical
terms their commitment to the essential elements of Catholic identity,
including the commitment to provide health care in conformity with the Church’s
ethical and religious teaching and directives.
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