Posts Tagged ‘Ex Corde Ecclesiae’

Complaints of hostile environment at US Catholic university

Friday, June 19th, 2015

A survey of faculty at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles has shown only one third of professors are Catholic. St John Paul II’s Ex Corde Ecclesiae stipulated that the majority of staff at Catholic universities should be Catholic. The LMU survey reveals conservative Catholic staff believe they are in an environment that is hostile Read more

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru loses its title

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

After decades of dialogue, the Holy See has taken the unusual step of stripping the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru of the right to call itself “Pontifical” or “Catholic”. A Vatican statement said the university had amended its statutes several times since 1967 “in a way which has severely injured the interests of the Church”. Read more