October 16, 2019
The King’s philosopher: new principal looks to create meaning in the lives of students
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Higher Education
VATICAN – The changes in canon law Pope Francis made to ensure that marriage annulment cases were handled more quickly, more pastorally and with less expense mean that some changes should be made in the way church law is taught, said the Congregation for Catholic Education.
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International
January 29, 2018
Pope revises norms for theology, philosophy studies to have a more 'missionary approach'
VATICAN CITY – Catholic university programs in philosophy, theology and canon law – especially those designed for future priests – must be marked by fidelity to church tradition, academic rigor and an awareness of the challenges to belief in the modern world, Pope Francis said.
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International
November 6, 2017
Teach students role of justice in migration, Pope says
VATICAN – Catholic universities need to study the root causes of forced migration and ways to counter the discrimination and xenophobic reactions it provokes in so many traditionally Christian nations, Pope Francis said.
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Vatican
February 25, 2017
Catholic universities work together to help send students abroad
“We don’t grow intellectually until we’re exposed to different points of view, different cultures, or people we simply don’t agree with,” said Basilian Fr. Terry Kersch, president of St. Joseph’s College at the University of Alberta.
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Catholic Education
October 21, 2016
Catholic universities: freeing the mind to discover
Catholic universities are bastions of informed and adventurous secularism. In fact, the more overtly and decidedly Catholic a university becomes the more it is able to contribute to secular Canadian society.
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Catholic Education