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Did the president make the public professionof faith and take the oath of fidelity?

Is the majority of the board of trusteesCatholic?

Is the majority of the faculty Catholic?

Do you publicly require all Catholic theologyprofessors to have the

mandatum

Did all Catholic theology professors take theoath of fidelity?

Do you provide daily Mass and posted times(at least weekly) for individual confession?

Do you exclude advocates of abortion,euthanasia, or cloning as commencementspeakers or recipients of honorary degrees?

Do you exclude sponsoring pro-abortioncampus groups?

Do you exclude co-ed dorms?

10.

Do your student health services excludereferrals to abortion clinics?

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When Benedict Says …

“Teachers and administrators

… havethe duty and privilegeto ensure that studentsreceive instruction inCatholic doctrine andpractice. This requiresthat public witness tothe way of Christ, as found in the Gospeland upheld by the Church’s magisterium,shapes all aspects of an institution’s life,both inside and outside the classroom.”— Pope Benedict XVI at The CatholicUniversity of America, April 17, 2008

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… He Remembers:

When Ratzinger was a student,

“In1947, Munich and its great uni-versity were still a heap of rubble,so the theology department hadto be accommodated in an eigh-teenth-century converted royalhunting lodge. … He slept on adormitory bunk bed in an outlyingannex. …

The director, professorJosef Pascher, who also lived there,imposed a strict regimen of dailyMass, lunch on a common diningarea, where he personally ladledout the soup.” Ratzinger “helped toclear the debris from the bombed-out university buildings.”

When He Says …

“In virtue of [academic] freedom

you arecalled to search for the truthwherever careful analysisof evidence leads you. Yet,it is also the case that anyappeal to the principle ofacademic freedom in orderto justify positions thatcontradict the faith andthe teaching of the Churchwould obstruct or even be-tray the university’s identityand mission.”— Pope Benedict XVI atThe Catholic University ofAmerica, April 17, 2008

… He Remembers:

“The Nazis had shut down

the theo-logical department,because CardinalFaulhaber had refusedto accept faculty whosupported Hitler.” Anti-Hitler theologian Got-tlieb Sohngen lost his job, but “provided aformative inﬂuence on the young scholar.”He was a “‘radical and critical questioner.’For him no subject was untouchable, noth-ing taboo, and at the same time he wasa man deeply committed to his Catholicfaith.”—

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President:

Canon 833

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The Profession of Faith and the Oath of Fidelity

, Acta ApostolicaeSedis

1989

: The obligation of a specialoath of ﬁdelity has been extended topresidents of Catholic universities.

Board:

U.S. Application:

“To the extentpossible, the majority of the board oftrustees should be Catholics commit-ted to the Church.”

Faculty:

U.S. Application:

“The univer-sity should strive to recruit and appointCatholics as professors so that, to theextent possible, those committed tothe witness of the faith will constitute amajority of the faculty.”

The

Mandatum

Canon 812

: It is neces-sary that Catholic theologians have a

mandatum

from the diocesan bishop.

Pope John Paul II

(to American bishops,2004): “By their very nature, Catholiccolleges and universities are called tooffer an institutional witness of ﬁdelityto Christ and to his word as it comes tous from the Church, a public witnessexpressed in the canonical requirementof the

mandatum

.”

U.S. Application:

“Catholic studentshave a right to receive from a univer-sity instruction in authentic Catholicdoctrine and practice, especially fromtheologians.”Mandatum

text:

“I hereby declare myrole and responsibility as a teacher ofa theological discipline within the fullcommunion of the Church. As a teacherof a theological discipline, therefore,I am committed to teach authenticCatholic doctrine and to refrain fromputting forth as Catholic teachinganything contrary to the Church’smagisterium.”

U.S. Application:

“If a particular profes-sor lacks a

mandatum

and continuesto teach a theological discipline, theuniversity must determine what furtheraction may be taken in accordance withits own mission and statutes.”

Oath:

Canon 833:

Catholic theologiansare personally bound to make a profes-sion of faith, according to the formulaapproved by the Apostolic See, in thepresence of the university president ifhe is a priest, or the diocesan bishopor a delegate, at the beginning of theirterm of ofﬁce.

The Profession of Faith and the Oath of Fidelity

, Acta Apostolicae Sedis

1989

:The obligation of a special oath ofﬁdelity has been extended to Catholictheology professors.

Campus Culture

Daily Mass:

U.S. Application

: “Catholicstudents have a right to be providedwith opportunities to practice thefaith through participation in Mass,the sacraments, religious devotions,and other authentic forms of Catholicspirituality.” The university “shall makeprovision for effective campus ministryprograms, including the celebrationof the sacraments, especially theEucharist and penance, other liturgi-cal celebrations, and opportunities forprayer and spiritual reﬂection.”

Speakers

The U.S. Bishops’ 2004Catholics in Political Life

: “Catholicinstitutions should not honor thosewho act in deﬁance of our fundamentalmoral principles. They should not begiven awards, honors, or platformsthat would suggest support for theiractions.”

Clubs:

U.S. Application:

“It is importantfor Catholic universities to implementin practical terms their commitmentto the essential elements of Catholicidentity, including activities of ofﬁciallyrecognized student and faculty organi-zations and associations.”

Dorms:

U.S. Application

: “It is im-portant for Catholic universities toimplement in practical terms theircommitment to the essential elementsof Catholic identity, including the com-mitment to create a campus cultureand environment that is expressive andsupportive of a Catholic way of life.”

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Aquinas College

4210 Harding RoadNashville, TN 37205(615) 297-7545AquinasCollege.eduEnrollment: 826

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

MANDATUM

| OATH

Campus Culture:

| DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS

| DORMS

| HEALTH

Ave Maria University

5050 Ave Maria Blvd.Ave Maria, FL 34142(877) AVE-UNIV (283-8648)AveMaria.eduEnrollment: 672

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

MANDATUM

| OATH

Campus Culture:

| DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS

| DORMS

| HEALTH

The AugustineInstitute

P.O. Box 11263001 South Federal Blvd.Denver, CO 80236(303) 937-4420AugustineInstitute.orgEnrollment: 30 full-time;60 part-time

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

MANDATUM

| OATH

Campus Culture:

N/A* | DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS

| DORMSN/A* | HEALTH

School’s comments:Mass:

“We strongly en-courage all our students tofrequent the sacramentsand to adore Our Lord inthe Blessed Sacrament ora-tory. Although we do nothave a full-time chaplainon our own campus, weconnect our students withlocal parishes for dailyMass and local priests andreligious for confession andspiritual direction.”

Health:

“We do not providestudent health services.But if we did, we certainlywould exclude all referralsto abortion clinics.”

Belmont Abbey College

100 Belmont-Mount HollyRoadBelmont, NC 28012(888) 222-0110BelmontAbbeyCollege.eduEnrollment: 900

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

MANDATUM

| OATH

Campus Culture:

| DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS

| DORMS

| HEALTH

Benedictine College

1020 North Second St.Atchison, KS 66002(913) 367-5340Benedictine.eduEnrollment: 1,330

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

MANDATUM

| OATH

Campus Culture:

| DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS--* | DORMS

| HEALTH

School’s comments:Dorms:

“We have a single-sex housing philosophy thatintentionally promotesa theology of the bodybased on Christian anthro-pology. One hall has bothmen and women in it, butthey are separated by ﬂoorwith a sophisticated secu-rity system that preventsintermingling betweenﬂoors past visitationhours.” (There are 10 dormstotal.)

The Catholic DistanceUniversity

120 East Colonial HighwayHamilton, VA 20158(888) 254-4238 ext. 700CDU.eduEnrollment: 1,200

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY

* |

MANDATUM

* | OATH

Campus Culture:*

School’s comments:

Mandatum

& Oath:

“Asan online university, ourfaculty are predominantlyadjunct. However, everymember of our faculty andstaff is approved by thepresident who is the bishopof the Diocese of Arlington.Since our theology facultyare primarily adjunct, the

mandatum

is taken in thediocese of their full-timeemployment.”

Campus:

“CDU is an onlineuniversity.”

The Catholic Universityof America

620 Michigan Ave. NEWashington, DC 20064(202) 319-5000CUA.eduEnrollment: 6,440:3,326 undergraduates and3,114 graduate students

The Institution:

| PRESIDENT

| BOARD

| FACULTY--* |

MANDATUM

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Campus Culture:

| DAILY MASS

| SPEAKERS

| CLUBS--* | DORMS

| HEALTH

School’s comments:

Mandatum

: “Catholic theo-logians (and philosophersand canonists) are mem-bers of an ecclesiasticalfaculty and must receivea ‘canonical mission’ fromthe local bishop/chancellorthat obliges them to ‘teachin the name of the Church’— it is different from the

mandatum

. They mustreceive a

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fromthe U.S. bishops on theboard and from the HolySee before they can betenured.”

Oath:

“The Catholic facultyrecite the profession of faithin the presence of and alongwith the local bishop/chan-cellor and president atthe opening Mass of eachacademic year. Catholic fac-ulty have not been requiredto take the oath of ﬁdel-ity because of the canoni-cal mission /

nihil obstat

binding the ecclesiasticalfaculties.”

Dorms:

“We have bothsingle-sex residence hallsas well as residence hallswith ﬂoors segregated bygender. New residence hallsare under construction.”

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ou couldsay weare“old school” and we wouldn’t mind. You see, BenedictineCollege has beeneducating youngminds within acommunity of faithand scholarship for thelast 150 years. Even with waiting lists and record-breaking enrollment, we have not lost what isimportant to us; a residentialcampus, thriving faith life,small student-teacher ratio, inshort, our roots. Those roots goback to our founding communities,Mount St. Scholastica Monastery and St. Benedict’s Abbey. St. Benedictfounded his monastery in Subiaco, Italy over1500 years ago and established the “Rule of St.Benedict” and the tenets that are still alive on ourcampus today; moderation, hospitality, and prayer and work.Today, Benedictine College boasts one of the largest undergraduatetheology departments in America. It was named “One of the Top 20 CatholicColleges in the Country,” by the

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