PPOONNTTIIFFIICCAALL JJOOHHNN PPAAUULL IIII IINNSSTTIITTUUTTEE FFOORR SSTTUUDDIIEESS OONN MMAARRRRIIAAGGEE && FFAAMMIILLYY at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. ACADEMIC CATALOG 2017 - 2019 PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON MARRIAGE & FAMILY at The Catholic University of America , Washington, D.C. ACADEMIC CATALOG 2017 - 2019 © Copyright 2017 Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America Cover Photo by Tony Fiorini/CUA 2JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE TABLE OF CONTENTS MISSION STATEMENT 4 DEGREE PROGRAMS 21 The Master of Theological Studies NATURE AND PURPOSE in Marriage and Family OF THE INSTITUTE 5 (M.T.S.) 21 GENERAL INFORMATION 8 The Master of Theological Studies in Biotechnology and Ethics 2017-18 A CADEMIC CALENDAR 10 (M.T.S.) 23 STUDENT LIFE 11 The Licentiate in Sacred Theology Facilities 11 of Marriage and Family Brookland/CUA Area 11 (S.T.L.) 25 Housing Options 11 The Doctorate in Sacred Theology Meals 12 with a Specialization in Medical Insurance 12 Marriage and Family (S.T.D.) 28 Student Identification Cards 12 The Doctorate of Philosophy in Liturgical Life 12 Dress Code 13 Theology with a Specialization in Cultural Events 13 Person, Marriage, and Family Transportation 14 (Ph.D.) 30 Parking 14 Inclement Weather 14 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 33 Post Office 14 FACULTY 58 Student Grievances 14 Sexual Harassment Policy 14 THE MCGIVNEY LECTURE SERIES 63 Career and Placement Services 15 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS 63 ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 16 GOVERNANCE & A DMINISTRATION 64 TUITION AND FEES 16 STUDENT ENROLLMENT 65 ACADEMIC INFORMATION 17 APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION Registration 17 MAGNUM MATRIMONII SACRAMENTUM 68 Advising and Dissertation Direction 17 Classification of Students 17 PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE FACULTY OF Auditing 17 THE PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II Class Attendance 18 INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON Transfer of Credits 18 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY , C ASTEL Change of Courses 18 GANDOLFO , I TALY (A UGUST 27, 1999) 70 Plagiarism 18 Grade Reports 18 PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE FACULTY ON Grade Appeals 18 THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF Transcripts and Diplomas 18 THE FOUNDING OF THE PONTIFICAL Records and Directory Information 19 Incompletes 19 JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE FOR STUDIES Leave of Absence 19 ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY , V ATICAN Text Books 19 CITY (M AY 31, 2001) 75 Library Resources 19 Commencement 20 AREA MAP 78 JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE 3 MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family is: 1. To provide a comprehensive 3. To offer accredited pontifical degree understanding of marriage and programs, as well as civilly accredited family faithful to the Catholic graduate degree programs (master’s, magisterial tradition in light of the license, and doctoral-level education); teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Pope John Paul II, by 4. To prepare graduates (laypersons, means of a multidisciplinary priests, and religious) for teaching education centered in theology and and research in academic, seminary, integrated in light of John Paul II’s and diocesan contexts; for work in notion of man and woman as an legal, medical, and other professional embodied, sexually differentiated occupations; and for evangelization communion of persons created in the of the family as the foundation for image of God and destined for a state the development of a “culture of life” of life; leading to the creation of a “civilization of love”; and 2. To develop a critical understanding of issues on marriage and family, 5. To undertake significant research biotechnology and ethics in light and publication relative to the of Western/modern assumptions contemporary discussion regarding regarding the human person, as these person, marriage, and family. bear on the nature and dignity of human life and the transcendental meaning of beauty, truth, and goodness, in a way that fosters a unity of theory and practice at the service of the Church’s “new evangelization”; 4JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE INSTITUTE The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for thought, with special attention to the Studies on Marriage and Family writings of the Second Vatican Council and A longtime philosopher-friend of Karol John Paul II. Wojtyła once said that Wojtyła had always been occupied with understanding the The aim of such study is to generate a human person in terms of love. The “culture of life”: a culture whose members mission of the Pontifical John Paul II “see life in its deeper meaning, its beauty Institute, in a profound sense, begins here, and its invitation to freedom and in this abiding conviction of the Holy responsibility”; “who do not presume to Father that love reveals the meaning of the take possession of reality, but instead accept person and, through the person, of all it as a gift, discovering in all things the “flesh”—the whole of creation (cf. reflection of the Creator and seeing in every Familiaris consortio , 11; Redemptor hominis , person his living image” ( Evangelium vitae , 10; Dominum et vivificantem , 50). This 83). A culture of life is a culture wherein the conviction finds its paradigmatic expression Church’s understanding of sexual and in the great text of the Second Vatican family ethics, the body and gender Council: “In reality it is only in the mystery difference, fatherhood and motherhood, of the Word made flesh that the mystery of filiation and fraternity, birth and death, find man truly becomes clear. Christ . , in a home. The culture of life resists the the very revelation of the mystery of the “consumerist, anti-birth mentality,” or again Father and of his love, fully reveals man to the “contraceptive mentality,” characteristic himself . .” ( Gaudium et spes , 22). The of the “technocratic logic” lying at the heart John Paul II Institute is devoted to the study of what John Paul II has termed a veritable of this truth about the human person in all “anti-civilization” (LF, 13; cf. FC, 6; Fides et of its dimensions: theological, ratio , 15). philosophical, anthropological, and indeed cosmological-scientific. The Institute Marriage-Family as a Way of Life centers its study of the person in the Recognition of the cultural dimension community that is the original cell of of theology helps to explain the breadth of human society: marriage and family (cf. the Institute’s concerns in its study of Catechism of the Catholic Church , 2207; marriage and the family. The Institute Letter to Families , 13). conceives the family as a way of life that is generative of a new culture centered in The Cultural Dimension of the Institute: wonder, gratitude, and gift. The Institute “Reading the Signs of the Times” approaches questions of morality in the Cultural issues are central for the work light of the order of being itself: that is, of the Institute. The Institute considers the within the context of the transcendentals— study of culture, in particular the culture of truth, goodness, and beauty—all of these modernity as developed in America, to be integrated into the “liturgy,” or “work of an integral part of the clarification of glory,” that John Paul II insists is “the fundamental theological concepts. The fundamental destiny of every creature, and Institute engages this cultural study in light above all of man” ( Crossing the Threshold of of the history of the Church and Christian Hope , 18). JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE 5 NATURE & PURPOSE OF THE INSTITUTE The Distinguishing Feature of the Institute’s the “‘we’ formed by the man and the Study of Marriage and Family woman” (LF, 6), that is a likeness to “the The distinguishing feature of the union of the divine persons among Pontifical John Paul II Institute, in sum, lies themselves” (CCC, 1702; cf. 1878). (2) The in conceiving marriage and the family, and covenant with the world that God all the moral problems associated with establishes in Jesus Christ through his these, within an entire vision of reality. The Church is one of nuptiality (CCC, 1612; cf. uniqueness of the Institute lies, further, in FC, 12). (3) The family is the “Church in its anchoring of this vision of reality, and miniature” ( Ecclesia domestica : FC, 49). this marital-familial love, in God’s self- Christian marriage is an efficacious sign, or revelation as a trinitarian communion of sacrament, of the love between Christ and persons (LF, 6: “The primordial model of his Church (CCC, 1617; FC, 3). (4) Marital- the family is to be sought in God himself, familial love is one of the two specific in the trinitarian mystery of his life”). human vocations identified by revelation for the following of Christ (FC, 11). (5) The “New Evangelization” “The sexual difference constitutes the very It is thus in this distinctive way that the identity of the person” (Address to Institute Institute carries on the work of John Paul Faculty, August 1999, #5). The body itself II’s “new evangelization,” whose great task is “manifests the reciprocity and communion to recapture “the ultimate meaning of life of persons. It expresses this by means of the and its fundamental values” (FC, 8)— gift as the fundamental characteristic of which, again, is done by examining “the personal existence.” John Paul II identifies relationship between the life of the person this internal aptness of the body for and his sharing in the life of the Trinity” expressing love, or again this rootedness of (LF, 9). The family plays an essential the body in love, as the “nuptial attribute” cultural and ecclesial role as both the subject and the object of this evangelization of the body ( Theology of the Body: Human (cf. FC, 53). Indeed, the pope sees the role Love in the Divine Plan ). of the family in the new evangelization as decisive and irreplaceable, because in fact Bioethics and Technology; Person, Family, “the future of the world and of the Church and Society passes through the family” (FC, 75).