Who Is Catholic? New conservative colleges

Mandatum Schools

This is a partial list of U.S. Catholic Universities who publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum (their bishop's recognition of their pledge to teach in communion with the magisterium of the Church). Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school.

Canon 812 reads: "It is necessary that those who teach theological disciplines in any institute of higher studies have a mandatum from the competent ecclesiastical authority."

Aquinas College, Nashville, Tennessee
Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida
Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
Corpus Christi College, Corpus Christi, Texas
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio
Magdalen College, Warner, New Hampshire
St. Gregory's University, Shawnee, Oklahoma
University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas

Oath of Fidelity Schools

This is a partial list of schools whose theology faculties have taken fidelity oaths in lieu of the mandatum. Most are in dioceses where the local bishop has not offered the mandatum. Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school.
Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia
Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California

"What bothers us," says Monika K. Hellwig, a former professor of theology who is president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, "is that they think we're not properly Catholic."

Because they are not "properly Catholic."

The Rev. Charles L. Currie, president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, says the new institutions "tend to get very judgmental. There is much more authentically Catholic going on at Catholic universities than Joe Fessio would give us credit for."

Really? Like what? The Vagina Monologues? Is that "authentically Catholic?" I don't think so.

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