NCREGISTER.COM NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER BUILDING CATHOLIC FAMILIES SEPTEMBER 28- OCTOBER 4, 2008 C1 COLLEGIATE GUIDE CATHOLIC COLLEGE IDENTITY SURVEY 08 he National Catholic Register and Faith & Family college guide is T made possible through the cooperation of bishops, college presidents, our benefactors and our advertisers. This year, 28 schools agreed to take our survey. The questions we asked them are Demand the MANDATUM designed such that a “Yes” answer best reflects Catholic identity: SWEET 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 833 § 7 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 I Ex Corde oath of fidelity? 6. Do you provide daily Mass and posted times (at least weekly) for individual confession? Co-ed Dorms? 7. Do you exclude advocates of abortion, R-U Insane? euthanasia, or cloning as commencement speakers or recipients of honorary degrees? 8. Do you exclude sponsoring pro-abortion campus groups? 9. Do you exclude co-ed dorms? 10. Do your student health services exclude referrals to abortion clinics? WHY THESE QUESTIONS? PAGE 2 | THE SCHOOLS, PAGES 3-6 Photo Illustration by Joseph Hilliman, Source: Shutterstock.com When Benedict Says … … He Remembers: When He Says … … He Remembers: “Teachers and administrators … have When Ratzinger was a student, “In “In virtue of [academic] freedom you are “The Nazis had shut down the theo- the duty and privilege 1947, Munich and its great uni- called to search for the truth logical department, to ensure that students versity were still a heap of rubble, wherever careful analysis because Cardinal receive instruction in so the theology department had of evidence leads you. Yet, Faulhaber had refused Catholic doctrine and to be accommodated in an eigh- it is also the case that any to accept faculty who practice. This requires teenth-century converted royal appeal to the principle of supported Hitler.” Anti- that public witness to hunting lodge. … He slept on a academic freedom in order Hitler theologian Got- the way of Christ, as found in the Gospel dormitory bunk bed in an outlying to justify positions that tlieb Sohngen lost his job, but “provided a and upheld by the Church’s magisterium, annex. … The director, professor contradict the faith and formative infl uence on the young scholar.” shapes all aspects of an institution’s life, Josef Pascher, who also lived there, the teaching of the Church He was a “‘radical and critical questioner.’ both inside and outside the classroom.” imposed a strict regimen of daily would obstruct or even be- For him no subject was untouchable, noth- — Pope Benedict XVI at The Catholic Mass, lunch on a common dining tray the university’s identity ing taboo, and at the same time he was University of America, April 17, 2008 area, where he personally ladled and mission.” a man deeply committed to his Catholic out the soup.” Ratzinger “helped to — Pope Benedict XVI at faith.” clear the debris from the bombed- The Catholic University of — Benedict of Bavaria (CirclePress.org) out university buildings.” America, April 17, 2008 NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 c 2 2 COLLEGIATE GUIDE Guide to the Guide: Why These Questions? The Catholic Identity College Survey offers objective questions about a university’s Catholic identity. We designed the survey so that a “YES” answer refl ects 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 Ap- plication to the United States, canon law, and other Church documents. CDU is an online accredited university Courses offered The Institution theologians.” spirituality.” The university “shall make Mandatum text: “I hereby declare my provision for effective campus ministry dedicated to teaching Catholic theology, ■ Master of Arts in Theology with President: Canon 833: The president role and responsibility as a teacher of programs, including the celebration of a Catholic university is personally a theological discipline within the full of the sacraments, especially the providing catechetical certification, concentration areas in Ecclesial bound to make a profession of faith, communion of the Church. As a teacher Eucharist and penance, other liturgi- according to the formula approved by of a theological discipline, therefore, cal celebrations, and opportunities for and offering continuing education for Service, Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic See, in the presence of I am committed to teach authentic prayer and spiritual refl ection.” the chancellor or diocesan bishop or a Catholic doctrine and to refrain from Speakers: The U.S. Bishops’ 2004 adult faith formation. From our three- Philosophy/Theology, and delegate at the beginning of the term putting forth as Catholic teaching Catholics in Political Life: “Catholic of offi ce. The Profession of Faith and anything contrary to the Church’s institutions should not honor those week online interactive seminars to Catholic Culture the Oath of Fidelity, Acta Apostolicae magisterium.” who act in defi ance of our fundamental 1989 our semester-length undergraduate and ■ BA Completion program in Theology Sedis : The obligation of a special U.S. Application: “If a particular profes- moral principles. They should not be oath of fi delity has been extended to sor lacks a mandatum and continues given awards, honors, or platforms graduate group classes, all of CDU’s ■ Catechetical Diploma presidents of Catholic universities. to teach a theological discipline, the that would suggest support for their Board: U.S. Application: “To the extent university must determine what further actions.” authentically Catholic courses are well- ■ Advanced Catechist Certificate possible, the majority of the board of action may be taken in accordance with Clubs: U.S. Application: “It is important trustees should be Catholics commit- its own mission and statutes.” for Catholic universities to implement written and well-taught. Our programs ■ Catechist and lay ministry formation ted to the Church.” Oath: Canon 833: Catholic theologians in practical terms their commitment Faculty: U.S. Application: “The univer- are personally bound to make a profes- to the essential elements of Catholic have no residency requirements, and our ■ Adult faith formation sity should strive to recruit and appoint sion of faith, according to the formula identity, including activities of offi cially Catholics as professors so that, to the approved by the Apostolic See, in the recognized student and faculty organi- interactive learning format is designed to extent possible, those committed to presence of the university president if zations and associations.” the witness of the faith will constitute a he is a priest, or the diocesan bishop Dorms: U.S. Application: “It is im- provide guided dialogue between faculty majority of the faculty.” or a delegate, at the beginning of their portant for Catholic universities to The Mandatum: Canon 812: It is neces- term of offi ce. implement in practical terms their and students, and to promote group sary that Catholic theologians have a The Profession of Faith and the Oath of commitment to the essential elements mandatum from the diocesan bishop. 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