Does The New Vatican Document On Catholic Schools Change Anything?
By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI VATICAN CITY (CNA) — What makes a school or university Catholic? As far as universities are concerned, Pope John Paul II answered this question with his apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1990, which established criteria to regulate the work of universities that called themselves Catholic.Although Ex Corde Ecclesiae is considered a general guideline for all Catholic educational institutions, there is curiously only one reference to it in the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education’s recent instruction on Catholic schools.The rather extensive document, called The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of Dialogue, is a practical guide for all schools that want to claim the title of Catholic.The instruction had been in the works for years.…Continue Reading