PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON MARRIAGE & FAMILY at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. ACADEMIC CATALOG 2011 - 2013 © Copyright 2011 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 20 The Master of Theological Studies NATURE AND PURPOSE in Marriage and Family OF THE INSTITUTE 5 (M.T.S.) 20 The Master of Theological Studies GENERAL INFORMATION 8 in Biotechnology and Ethics 2011-12 A CADEMIC CALENDAR 10 (M.T.S.) 22 The Licentiate in Sacred Theology STUDENT LIFE 11 of Marriage and Family Facilities 11 (S.T.L.) 24 Brookland/CUA Area 11 Housing Options 11 The Doctorate in Sacred Theology Meals 12 with a Specialization in Medical Insurance 12 Marriage and Family (S.T.D.) 27 Student Identification Cards 12 The Doctorate in Theology with Liturgical Life 12 a Specialization in Person, Dress Code 13 Marriage, and Family (Ph.D.) 29 Cultural Events 13 Transportation 13 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 32 Parking 14 FACULTY 52 Inclement Weather 14 Post Office 14 THE MCGIVNEY LECTURE SERIES 57 Student Grievances 14 DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS 57 Career and Placement Services 14 GOVERNANCE & A DMINISTRATION 58 ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 15 STUDENT ENROLLMENT 59 TUITION AND FEES 15 APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ACADEMIC INFORMATION 16 MAGNUM MATRIMONII SACRAMENTUM 62 Registration 16 Academic Advising 16 PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE FACULTY OF Classification of Students 16 Auditing 16 THE PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II Class Attendance 17 INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON Transfer of Credits 17 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY , C ASTEL Change of Courses 17 GANDOLFO , I TALY (A UGUST 27, 1999) 64 Grade Reports 17 Grade Appeals 17 PAPAL ADDRESS TO THE FACULTY ON Transcripts and Diplomas 17 THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF Records and Directory Information 18 THE FOUNDING OF THE PONTIFICAL Incompletes 18 JOHN PAUL II I NSTITUTE FOR STUDIES Leave of Absence 18 Text Books 18 ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY , V ATICAN Library Resources 18 CITY (M AY 31, 2001) 69 Master Class Week 19 Commencement 19 AREA MAP 76 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 and biotechnology and ethics in light of publication relative to the 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. Wojty /la once said that Wojty /la 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 John union of the divine persons among Paul II Institute, in sum, lies in conceiving themselves” (CCC, 1702; cf. 1878). (2) The marriage and the family, and all the moral covenant with the world that God problems associated with these, within an establishes in Jesus Christ through his entire vision of reality. The uniqueness of Church is one of nuptiality (CCC, 1612; cf. the Institute lies, further, in its anchoring of FC, 12). (3) The family is the “Church in this vision of reality, and this marital- miniature” ( Ecclesia domestica : FC, 49). familial love, in God’s self-revelation as a Christian marriage is an efficacious sign, or trinitarian communion of persons (LF, 6: sacrament, of the love between Christ and “The primordial model of the family is to his Church (CCC, 1617; FC, 3). (4) Marital- be sought in God himself, in the trinitarian familial love is one of the two specific 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.