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  1. The Catholic University, as a university, is an academic community that, rigorously and critically, assists in the protection and development of human dignity and cultural heritage through research, teaching, and various services offered to local, national, and international communities. She possesses that institutional autonomy necessary to perform its functions effectively and guarantees its members academic freedom, safeguarding the rights of the individual and the community within the confines of the truth and the common good. By its very nature, it is a community. It proposes to work in harmony, united in diversity, to which it opens respectfully and spontaneously from its members, genuine in that all must act following the principles that govern and Christian in the spirit it encourages. The UCA community seeks to grow in sincere dialogue, reflection upon itself to deepen its achievements, correct courses whenever necessary, and help each member reach its fullness. Ultimately, it leads to a vibrant and creative university, committed to society and culture in which it is inserted. In an active synergy with private companies, NGOs, government agencies and other entities, UCA offers its students through agreements with more than 940 institutions, and the possibility to complete the academic training doing internships to strengthen and develop the knowledge acquired and develop the skills they need for an adequate job insertion. The purpose of the Internship System of UCA is to provide a service to other companies and integrating them into our educational community entities to associate training and professional practice. Moreover, the system satisfies the needs of different types of organizations, covering new ways to optimize resources, increase their employability, and build a better society for all. This is done with the cooperation and work of the administrative staff of each academic unit. We form a group in constant interaction, collaboration, and mutual support that aims to provide practical solutions to provide more opportunities for our students and with them. The productive forces and services cooperate in building our nation. Our system has as one of its primary goals to offer personalized contact, both students and companies, and agencies, to achieve high standards in the quality of our human monitoring and treatment provided to our users. These approaches closely follow the guidelines of the Institutional Project 2011-2016 UCA on students' teaching and training. We also collaborate with the Project from the notions of Public Presence and Social Responsibility. The University organizes education and comprehensive training to prepare youth and all those with a college vocation in the specific work of culture, scientific research, the ministry of higher teaching and in the exercise of liberal professions, caring to promote its scientific specialization, professional, artistic or, its university culture or higher, making it able to exercise its vocation with competence and a straight Catholic sense of one's duties and thus to play a leadership role in society. By its own identity, the Catholic University must respond appropriately to the severe contemporary problems, particularly in Argentina and the regional situation, in the complex field of modern intellectual culture, discovering in the revealed word of God an interpellation, a mandate, and a livelihood. The University seeks to achieve "a presence, so to speak, public, continuous and universal of Christian thought to promote higher learning and be men distinguished for learning, ready to play responsible roles in society and witness to their faith in the world. As an institution under the Argentine Episcopal Conference, the Catholic University of Argentina, as it may be eventually requested by the diocesan bishops, as far as possible and complying with the canon and civil law, may create faculties throughout the country, when reasonable academic and economic feasibility of each project is met. For this, it has to be an authentic community, a human space vitalized by faith that provides a balanced and comprehensive development of the individual. In its mission, the University is animated by an evangelical missionary spirit of openness and pluralism. Therefore, it has to provide an environment where dialogue between believers and nonbelievers is promoted, without sacrificing the truth, in the highest charity. The National Assessment and Accreditation Commission (COMEAU, by its Spanish acronym) states that "the institutional project includes underlying proposals which have been present since the institution's origin, the practices that define it and rebuild it daily as well as its future projection." However, its realization may require further determinations and a variety of operational channels. This Project has sought to further attention to the underlying proposals and future projection of the Institution, which make its identity a specific one. This Project only indicates some practical lines of action based on the institutional Self-evaluation, representing the interests of many members of the University Community. These are lines of different levels, which will require the Superior Council to devise other tools for their development, application, and evaluation. This Project was reached after a process of continued and broad participation, the first phase of which took place between 2008 and 2009. Subsequently, as a decision taken by the new authorities, a second stage was developed which lasted for the whole of 2010 and which consisted of further consultations with the community through various workshops organized by the Vice-Rectorate for Academic Affairs, and a lengthy debate within the Superior Council about the identity of this University. This debate was open to the entire community through a call from the Institute for the Integration of Knowledge (IPIS, by its Spanish acronym). The recommendations of the last CONEAU External Evaluation (June 2003) were also carefully considered. View full university
  2. The Dominican House of Studies traces its mission to the preaching charism and Catholic intellectual heritage bequeathed to the Order of Preachers by its founder, St. Dominic de Guzman. Dominic constructed a religious order international in scope yet decentralized in structure to address the needs of the Church by preparing preachers, both intellectually informed and pastorally competent. This evangelizing mission is asserted in the primary claim of the Fundamental Constitution of the Order of Preachers that the Order was instituted "especially for preaching and the salvation of souls." To prepare preachers, Dominic established houses near the leading universities of his time. Students of the Order could follow a prescribed course of study in preparation for their pastoral work. Dominic insisted that spiritual formation is essential to the intellectual formation. The academic study was situated within a religious community shaped by ordinary life, liturgical prayer, modified monastic observance, a democratic form of government, and fraternal charity. St. Thomas Aquinas completed this vision by sharpening the speculative quest for truth within a broad Aristotelian framework, marked by a respect for the scientific method, freedom of inquiry, the broadness of scope, the precision of concepts, and largeness of spirit. Thomas remains even today guide and model of the Dominican intellectual life because of his docility of mind to Revelation, unwavering respect for the visible world and the human person, and unflagging commitment to think with and within the Church. The Dominican House of Studies is the direct heir to this theological and spiritual tradition that Dominic founded. Thomas developed a theological heritage, both speculatively inclined and pastorally charged, that spans eight centuries. In service to the Dominican Order's evangelizing mission, the primary purpose of the Dominican House of Studies is to provide a Catholic theological education that prepares students for the ordained ministry in the Province of St. Joseph. Recognizing the broad appeal of theological education in the Dominican tradition, the Dominican House of Studies accepts all interested and qualified students without regard to race, gender, religion, or ethnic background. The Dominican House of Studies is committed to imparting to all of its students a capacity for serious scholarship and basic competence in philosophy and theology through the study of St. Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with the best of contemporary thought. For ministry preparation, it offers a comprehensive program of studies integrated with spiritual and pastoral components to form students imbued with a desire for holiness, capable of effective preaching, and competent pastoral ministry. With an academic environment shaped by a Thomistic focus, a small student enrollment, and a high faculty-student ratio, the Dominican House of Studies fosters among students and faculty an intimacy conducive to the personal formation in the spiritual, intellectual, and ministerial spheres of preaching, teaching, and other ministries. The Pontifical Faculty believes that a bachelor's degree is essential preparation for theological study. Applicants for admission to the Pontifical Faculty are required to hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, from a college or university, regionally accredited in the United States or Canada. Taking courses at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception is a great way to continue to learn and grow in the Catholic Faith. To serve those who wish to further their education and their professional competence, but who do not currently desire to embark on a full degree program, the PFIC offers courses on an individual basis. Courses may be audited or taken for credit throughout the year. Persons who have earned a B.A. degree or equivalent from an accredited institution may take up to four courses per semester as a non-matriculated student. Admission as a Non-Degree Seeking (N.D.S.) student does not constitute admission to any degree program. However, suppose such a student should later apply for admission to a degree program. In that case, course credits earned in the non-degree seeking study may be applied to the degree, and the application fee for the degree would also be waived. Persons may also audit courses to understand that no papers or examinations will be required or graded, and no academic credit will be given. All N.D.S. students must submit an application, official transcripts, an application fee, and a recent photo. Students who attend the PFIC are most concerned with intellectual and spiritual growth, and the school is ordered to provide an atmosphere conducive to that end. As the genuine study of theology requires living a life of grace, the PFIC offers many opportunities to grow spiritually. All students are welcome to join the Dominican community for prayer, both for Mass and the Divine Office. The chapel is open for personal prayer throughout the day. Many Dominican priests are available as confessors or spiritual directors, and special Masses and adoration are offered for the students throughout the year. One of the unique benefits of study at the PFIC is studying alongside many Dominicans and other diocesan and religious seminarians and priests, whose joy and dedication foster hope for the future of the Church. There is a student lounge where students gather between classes to relax with some coffee and conversation, and the library provides a pleasant and quiet place to study. Also, throughout the year, there are occasional casual gatherings and outings planned for the non-Dominican students. The students elect a student representative who regularly meets with the administration to foster a healthy and happy relationship and experience.
  3. The Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences «Auxilium» is an ecclesiastical Faculty founded canonically at the Istituto delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice (Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians or Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) in 1970. Its origins date back to 1954 when the Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice founded the International Higher Institute of Pedagogy and Religious Studies in Turin, which was recognized and approved by the Sacred Congregation for Religious in 1956. In 1966, by Decree of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, the Institute was incorporated into the Higher Institute of Pedagogy at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. The legal and academic ties between the two bodies were later redefined so that by 1970 the «Auxilium» had its statutes. To this day, however, the Faculty's Chancellor, the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, also heads the Salesian Pontifical University. In 1978, the Faculty moved its headquarters to Rome. Faithful to the original inspiration and guidance of the Magisterium of the Church, it is committed to understanding the requests for training from different cultures to provide adequate responses and new perspectives. With the Holy See becoming a signatory of the Bologna Process, the Faculty is working to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher education, aiming to foster mutual recognition of training courses. The «Auxilium» continues to carry out its academic mission with the practicality and vision typical of the Salesian approach, a heritage which the University preserves and develops. The Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences «Auxilium» fosters and promotes research in educational sciences and trains researchers, teachers, and professionals at various levels in the field of education. Following a Christian perspective and aiming to help people fully achieve their potential, the Faculty believes that philosophy and theology play a fundamental role in well-balanced training in educational sciences. The Faculty's understanding of educational sciences respects the different education dimensions, approaching it from various angles - philosophical, theological, psychological, sociological, historical, legal, methodological, and communicative. The Faculty, therefore, offers general teacher training, together with specialized study in one of the fields of educational sciences. In keeping with Don Bosco's principles of Christian humanism in education, the Faculty studies the educational issues related to infancy, childhood, and adolescence, with particular attention on women's development. Auxilium is a leading Faculty for the training of education professionals. The Faculty operates primarily in the fields of training, study, and research and has the following aims: To maintain its position as a leading training institution for education professionals through constant innovation in the training provided and in the teaching and learning strategies applied To provide comprehensive training in the field of educational sciences To train both lay and religious students within the context of the new evangelism, preparing them for intercultural and interreligious dialogue To be involved in the international scientific community as a significant point of reference for reflection and research in the field of education To promote humanism, which comprehensively protects and educates individuals, using development and innovation to empower women and young people.
  4. The Pontifical Lateran University is a prestigious university based in Rome in the Holy See's extraterritorial area in Laterano. Born from the heart of the Church and located in the center of Rome, frequented by saints and popes in its more than two centuries of history, the Pontifical Lateran University proposes itself today avant-garde frontier in education and scientific research. The origin of the Pontifical Lateran University dates back to Pope Clement XIV, who reunited the Roman Seminary and the School of Theology of the Roman College, entrusting its direction to the secular clergy of the diocese of Rome. This new "institution" (founded by the Brief Commendatissimam of November 24, 1773) was under the immediate dependence of the Pope, who called it "College, Seminary, and University". Pope Leo XII, returning the Roman College to the Society of Jesus, with the Brief Recolentes animo of April 10, 1824, wanted the Schools and the Seminary to continue in the palace of Sant'Apollinare, which thus became the "Roman Seminary" (for which it was promulgated the Ordinatio Seminarii Romans). Equipped with canonical independence, he had the power to confer the degree of Doctor in S. Theology. In 1828, the one in Philosophy was added. The Pontifical Lateran University (Pontificia Università Lateranense or Lateranum), also sometimes referred to as the Pontifical University of Apollinaire, is a university by pontifical right based in Rome. The present Pontifical Lateran University was founded in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV after he had suppressed the Society of Jesus and officially entrusted the clergy of Rome with the mission to teach theology and philosophy to seminarians from the Roman Colleges. At the Pontifical Lateran University, you will meet young people and professors from all over the world. Among the 4,000 enrolled at our campus, there are students from 105 different countries, and our professors come from 20 different countries. Throughout the world, there are 41 institutes connected to our University. The University is linked to the university Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis and the Theological Institute of Assisi. The Theological Institute of Assisi is a training college established in 1971 in Assisi in the structures of Saint Francis, sharing the premises of the Sacred Convent with the community of Friars Minor Conventual. The Institute also has a documentation center. Since 1993, it is attached to the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University Lateran and serves as the academic institution designed to train students in theology. It organizes courses of studies leading to diplomas of Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Licentiate of Sacred Theology and Franciscan studies for those wishing to be recruited into the church office or intending to teach the Catholic religion in schools. Over 200 teachers from more than 20 countries.More than 40 locations worldwide.A place where one can meet and exchange ideas with students from over 105 countries Advanced language instruction:- Foreign language courses on-site or at affiliated centers abroad Study of the Italian language and culture Study of classical languages, Latin and Greek Personal attention to each student:- Orientation services to welcome new students Practical diplomatic support available for all students Academic accompaniment available through the assignment of a tutor/ student advisor
  5. The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) is a Dominican institution in Rome's heart. It contains Faculties of Theology, Philosophy, Canon Law, and Social Sciences. The roots of the Angelicum reach the medieval Dominican house of studies in Rome, founded in the XIII century, in which Aquinas taught. It presently offers education in Italian and English for students of about 100 different nationalities. The Angelicum collaborates with academic institutions from all over the world. Among its illustrious students belongs Karol Wojtyła, Saint John Paul II. The Angelicum offers a university education where faith and reason work together. It forms students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development. Illuminating the present by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, students, professors, and staff share in Dominican study, prayer, community, and preaching. From the Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio" Dominicianus Ordo from St. John XIII, in which he honored with the title of Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, the then International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum As to assure an adequate doctrinal formation in universities and religious houses of formation and in order to fulfill our desire that the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas be deepened as a treasure for the development of the Christian life and his writings be made accessible to all since they continue to be relevant to our times and since we are convinced that if the study of the doctrines of the Angelic Doctor continues to be advanced, they will fulfill the determinations of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council after carefully examining the matter, motu proprio. We decree and promulgate that our apostolic authority designates the International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, legitimately erected and entrusted to the Order of Preachers, now and posterity as the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The Angelicum is a Dominican University, founded by Order of Friars Preachers to express the Order's Gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations. Like the Angelic Doctor himself, today's students learn by opening the classic books of revelation, nature, and experience, which discloses the inner book of the Church's living Tradition, a Tradition of God's Word made flesh and dwelling amongst us. As a Dominican University, we were founded by order of Preachers to give expression to the Order's gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations, focusing on the "Four Pillars" for the Order: Rooted in the personal and professional relationship between professors and students. Opening our hearts and minds to pursue and receive the Truth that is Jesus Christ through contemplation. Focused more on the assimilation of wisdom than on the multiplication of knowledge. Through the mastering of the charity of Truth prepared to teach, bear witness, and serve. Community:- Prayer:- Study:- Preach:- The Dominicans who direct the University seek to continue in the same spirit of Truth of St. Dominic and these Four Priorities and Five Frontiers. Inspired by the great doctor saints of the Order –SS. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Catherine of Siena – we aim to penetrate the Truth of Jesus Christ and discover and preach that harmony between faith and reason that our broken world needs today.
  6. The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross was born from the desire of St. Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, to create a center of higher ecclesiastical studies in Rome at the service of the whole Church. With prayer and patient work, he laid the foundations of the current University of the Holy Cross. St. Josemaria's first successor, Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, with the support of St. John Paul II, brought that desire to completion, inaugurating the Roman Academic Center with a Holy Mass dedicated to the Holy Spirit on October 15th, 1984. Thanks to the University of Navarre's ecclesiastical Schools' assistance, the institution was destined to become a center of study and research, committed to the task of theological, philosophical, and canonical formation. The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is currently comprised of the Schools of Theology, Canon Law, Philosophy, and Church Communications. The Higher Institute of Religious Studies "all'Apollinare" (ISSRA) is also an essential element. The Academic Building is found in Palazzo S. Apollinare in Rome, while the Research Center and the Library are located on Via de Farnesi. The specific mission of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is to enrich one's understanding of the faith while increasing one's capacity to dialogue with contemporary culture. The spirit, vision, and commitment that gave rise to universities in Europe centuries ago are the same that inspires the intellectual rigor of research at the service of faith at Santa Croce. The University seeks an understanding of the faith that impacts a person's life, better able to give an account of the hope in him. The Santa Croce tries to confront today's world's challenges by viewing areas of concern as opportunities, forming men and women—priests, religious, laypersons—whose profound and intellectually sound faith can enter into dialogue with modernity, advocating Christ convincingly and with conviction. Within the vast spiritual legacy left by St. Josemaría Escrivá exists without a doubt the exhortation to cultivate a profound unity of life. This call is manifested in a proper balance and consistency between words and actions and the harmony that should exist between professional and intellectual formation on the one hand and spiritual and theological formation on the other. Academic activities, organized with an interdisciplinary spirit, are open to scholars and intellectuals from the economic, scientific, philosophical, and political fields, thus providing the elements necessary for a real dialog with the world.
  7. The Pontifical Gregorian University (Italian: Pontificia Università Gregoriana, also known as the Gregoriana) is a higher education religious school (pontifical university) located in Rome, Italy. It was initially a part of the Roman College founded in 1551 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and included all schooling grades. The university division of philosophy and theology of the Roman College was given Papal approval in 1556, making it the first university founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). In 1584 the Roman College was given a grandiose new home by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was renamed. It was already making its mark not only in sacred but also in natural science. In 1551 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, opened a School of Grammar and Christian Doctrine in Rome without charge that was soon transformed into the Roman College. Those of Philosophy and Theology soon joined the first humanistic studies. In 1556, the Roman College received permission to grant academic degrees. From its beginning, the college was seen as a crossroad between Church and society, faith and culture, faith and justice, faith and science1. The Gregorian is an Ecclesiastical, Pontifical, and Jesuit University. Rooted in the Ignatian spirit, it aims to form men and women from every culture so that they can find God wherever they will live (in all things). As a University, it seeks excellence in teaching, personal reflection, and research, offering its students a harmonic synthesis between human knowledge and the light of faith according to the appropriate method for each academic discipline. Being aware of the interrelationship between science and the continuing evolution of knowledge fosters an interdisciplinary approach in its research methods and updating the university community through the new tools of communication for distance learning. It is composed of diverse Faculties and Institutes established by the Holy See and conferring by this authority canonical academic degrees2. Besides theology, canon law, and philosophy, Church History, and other human sciences4, in an attempt to always probe more deeply into the mystery of God who reveals himself and his salvation, realized in Christ, inhuman situations, in history, and the Church5. At the same time, with faithfulness to the Magisterial Church, it faces profound new challenges that come from an ever-changing world pervaded by non-belief and injustice6. As a Pontifical University, it collaborates closely with the Petrine ministry by cultivating unity of faith concerning the diversity of cultures that distinguishes the Church in its many local settings. The heritage of its long Christian tradition seeks the common roots that allow the true faith to illuminate the plurality of existing situations in today's world as it is moving toward social and economic globalization7. As a Jesuit University, and thus animated by the Ignatian spirit, it is characterized by its service available to the Holy See8. Its pedagogy, rooted in the personal and professional relationship between professors and students, insists more on the assimilation of wisdom than the multiplication of knowledge. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach that gives students an integral formation. It offers a mentoring relationship to develop his or her personality, at greater inner freedom, and at accepting personal responsibility. With creative fidelity, it accepts and communicates the ecclesial values that are hallmarks of the Society of Jesus as imperative in God's plan for humanity: the social sense of a faith that works for peace truth justice dialogue with the world of culture and science the promotion of Christian unity and interreligious dialogue the value and dignity of each person and creation itself9 As a university at the Church's service worldwide, it earnestly seeks to maintain the universality of its own teaching body. It takes to heart the necessary incarnation of the gospel message.
  8. The Catholic University, as a university, is an academic community that, rigorously and critically, assists in the protection and development of human dignity and cultural heritage through research, teaching, and various services offered to local, national, and international communities. She possesses that institutional autonomy necessary to perform its functions effectively and guarantees its members academic freedom, safeguarding the rights of the individual and the community within the confines of the truth and the common good. By its very nature, it is a community. It proposes to work in harmony, united in diversity, to which it opens respectfully and spontaneously from its members, genuine in that all must act following the principles that govern and Christian in the spirit it encourages. The UCA community seeks to grow in sincere dialogue, reflection upon itself to deepen its achievements, correct courses whenever necessary, and help each member reach its fullness. Ultimately, it leads to a vibrant and creative university, committed to society and culture in which it is inserted. In an active synergy with private companies, NGOs, government agencies and other entities, UCA offers its students through agreements with more than 940 institutions, and the possibility to complete the academic training doing internships to strengthen and develop the knowledge acquired and develop the skills they need for an adequate job insertion. The purpose of the Internship System of UCA is to provide a service to other companies and integrating them into our educational community entities to associate training and professional practice. Moreover, the system satisfies the needs of different types of organizations, covering new ways to optimize resources, increase their employability, and build a better society for all. This is done with the cooperation and work of the administrative staff of each academic unit. We form a group in constant interaction, collaboration, and mutual support that aims to provide practical solutions to provide more opportunities for our students and with them. The productive forces and services cooperate in building our nation. Our system has as one of its primary goals to offer personalized contact, both students and companies, and agencies, to achieve high standards in the quality of our human monitoring and treatment provided to our users. These approaches closely follow the guidelines of the Institutional Project 2011-2016 UCA on students' teaching and training. We also collaborate with the Project from the notions of Public Presence and Social Responsibility. The University organizes education and comprehensive training to prepare youth and all those with a college vocation in the specific work of culture, scientific research, the ministry of higher teaching and in the exercise of liberal professions, caring to promote its scientific specialization, professional, artistic or, its university culture or higher, making it able to exercise its vocation with competence and a straight Catholic sense of one's duties and thus to play a leadership role in society. By its own identity, the Catholic University must respond appropriately to the severe contemporary problems, particularly in Argentina and the regional situation, in the complex field of modern intellectual culture, discovering in the revealed word of God an interpellation, a mandate, and a livelihood. The University seeks to achieve "a presence, so to speak, public, continuous and universal of Christian thought to promote higher learning and be men distinguished for learning, ready to play responsible roles in society and witness to their faith in the world. As an institution under the Argentine Episcopal Conference, the Catholic University of Argentina, as it may be eventually requested by the diocesan bishops, as far as possible and complying with the canon and civil law, may create faculties throughout the country, when reasonable academic and economic feasibility of each project is met. For this, it has to be an authentic community, a human space vitalized by faith that provides a balanced and comprehensive development of the individual. In its mission, the University is animated by an evangelical missionary spirit of openness and pluralism. Therefore, it has to provide an environment where dialogue between believers and nonbelievers is promoted, without sacrificing the truth, in the highest charity. The National Assessment and Accreditation Commission (COMEAU, by its Spanish acronym) states that "the institutional project includes underlying proposals which have been present since the institution's origin, the practices that define it and rebuild it daily as well as its future projection." However, its realization may require further determinations and a variety of operational channels. This Project has sought to further attention to the underlying proposals and future projection of the Institution, which make its identity a specific one. This Project only indicates some practical lines of action based on the institutional Self-evaluation, representing the interests of many members of the University Community. These are lines of different levels, which will require the Superior Council to devise other tools for their development, application, and evaluation. This Project was reached after a process of continued and broad participation, the first phase of which took place between 2008 and 2009. Subsequently, as a decision taken by the new authorities, a second stage was developed which lasted for the whole of 2010 and which consisted of further consultations with the community through various workshops organized by the Vice-Rectorate for Academic Affairs, and a lengthy debate within the Superior Council about the identity of this University. This debate was open to the entire community through a call from the Institute for the Integration of Knowledge (IPIS, by its Spanish acronym). The recommendations of the last CONEAU External Evaluation (June 2003) were also carefully considered.
  9. Comillas is a Catholic university that has been run for over a century by the Society of Jesus, a private institution that manages several universities throughout the world. Our university mission has always been based on a combination of the educational experience built up over our extensive history and constant evolution in response to social change. Being open to society is extremely important under the trying circumstances in which we live, and now more than ever, good communication between universities and society is essential. This is why Comillas has always worked in ongoing and close collaboration with business-related, professional, and social organizations. After a century of university experience at COMILLAS, we are keenly aware that many things have changed since the University was founded. Spanish universities have moved on from the education of a select social minority toward a universal social mission. Catholicism is no longer the Official State Religion, and the Church has lived through the fruitful opening of the Second Vatican Council. Spanish society has assumed a more European and even global character. The effect of these profound changes on COMILLAS can be seen in the University's move from Comillas to Madrid, in the broad expansion of its educational offer (Humanities and Technical Sciences as well as Ecclesiastic Sciences), and its ongoing commitment to evolution and modernization based on reliable and permanent foundations. Our university mission is firmly rooted within this evolutionary process's framework, of the growing plurality of Spanish universities and new social and ecclesiastic needs and challenges. Our aim is that every person to form part of our University receives a comprehensive education: focusing not only on academic training but also on their own free will, their human, ethical and aesthetic awareness, capacity for personal reflection, and sense of responsibility. In short, COMILLAS aims to contribute to the full personal development of all its students. Values can be described as the things that we, as human beings, value the principles we are prepared to make sacrifices. They give meaning to our existence. They influence the way we think, how we feel, and the action we take. No training or education program for human beings can be permitted the luxury of preceding some values. COMILLAS will select and promote, within its nature. However, always most independently, the personal and social values it feels are fundamental to any given society, and especially in divided and unjust societies: mutual respect interpersonal dialog responsible freedom the search for justice and peace quantified professionalism accessibility helping others solidarity with those who are most in need and a critical, balanced, and long-term outlook A solid base for building a critical approach requires science, the interdisciplinary search for Truth, the assimilation of fundamental values, and a deep understanding of social reality. Only upon these foundations, a genuinely human and global critical approach can be developed and applied. This critical approach must serve to discern any human manifestation. COMILLAS can only promote a critical approach among its students if, as an institution, it also adopts this attitude. Therefore, the University sees self-criticism as a personal obligation, carried out through internal debate and critical analysis of the social and cultural situations in which it is immersed.
  10. The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross was born from the desire of St. Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, to create a center of higher ecclesiastical studies in Rome at the service of the whole Church. With prayer and patient work, he laid the foundations of the current University of the Holy Cross. St. Josemaria's first successor, Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, with the support of St. John Paul II, brought that desire to completion, inaugurating the Roman Academic Center with a Holy Mass dedicated to the Holy Spirit on October 15th, 1984. Thanks to the University of Navarre's ecclesiastical Schools' assistance, the institution was destined to become a center of study and research, committed to the task of theological, philosophical, and canonical formation. The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is currently comprised of the Schools of Theology, Canon Law, Philosophy, and Church Communications. The Higher Institute of Religious Studies "all'Apollinare" (ISSRA) is also an essential element. The Academic Building is found in Palazzo S. Apollinare in Rome, while the Research Center and the Library are located on Via de Farnesi. The specific mission of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross is to enrich one's understanding of the faith while increasing one's capacity to dialogue with contemporary culture. The spirit, vision, and commitment that gave rise to universities in Europe centuries ago are the same that inspires the intellectual rigor of research at the service of faith at Santa Croce. The University seeks an understanding of the faith that impacts a person's life, better able to give an account of the hope in him. The Santa Croce tries to confront today's world's challenges by viewing areas of concern as opportunities, forming men and women—priests, religious, laypersons—whose profound and intellectually sound faith can enter into dialogue with modernity, advocating Christ convincingly and with conviction. Within the vast spiritual legacy left by St. Josemaría Escrivá exists without a doubt the exhortation to cultivate a profound unity of life. This call is manifested in a proper balance and consistency between words and actions and the harmony that should exist between professional and intellectual formation on the one hand and spiritual and theological formation on the other. Academic activities, organized with an interdisciplinary spirit, are open to scholars and intellectuals from the economic, scientific, philosophical, and political fields, thus providing the elements necessary for a real dialog with the world. View full university
  11. The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) is a Dominican institution in Rome's heart. It contains Faculties of Theology, Philosophy, Canon Law, and Social Sciences. The roots of the Angelicum reach the medieval Dominican house of studies in Rome, founded in the XIII century, in which Aquinas taught. It presently offers education in Italian and English for students of about 100 different nationalities. The Angelicum collaborates with academic institutions from all over the world. Among its illustrious students belongs Karol Wojtyła, Saint John Paul II. The Angelicum offers a university education where faith and reason work together. It forms students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development. Illuminating the present by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, students, professors, and staff share in Dominican study, prayer, community, and preaching. From the Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio" Dominicianus Ordo from St. John XIII, in which he honored with the title of Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, the then International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum As to assure an adequate doctrinal formation in universities and religious houses of formation and in order to fulfill our desire that the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas be deepened as a treasure for the development of the Christian life and his writings be made accessible to all since they continue to be relevant to our times and since we are convinced that if the study of the doctrines of the Angelic Doctor continues to be advanced, they will fulfill the determinations of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council after carefully examining the matter, motu proprio. We decree and promulgate that our apostolic authority designates the International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, legitimately erected and entrusted to the Order of Preachers, now and posterity as the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The Angelicum is a Dominican University, founded by Order of Friars Preachers to express the Order's Gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations. Like the Angelic Doctor himself, today's students learn by opening the classic books of revelation, nature, and experience, which discloses the inner book of the Church's living Tradition, a Tradition of God's Word made flesh and dwelling amongst us. As a Dominican University, we were founded by order of Preachers to give expression to the Order's gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations, focusing on the "Four Pillars" for the Order: Rooted in the personal and professional relationship between professors and students. Opening our hearts and minds to pursue and receive the Truth that is Jesus Christ through contemplation. Focused more on the assimilation of wisdom than on the multiplication of knowledge. Through the mastering of the charity of Truth prepared to teach, bear witness, and serve. Community:- Prayer:- Study:- Preach:- The Dominicans who direct the University seek to continue in the same spirit of Truth of St. Dominic and these Four Priorities and Five Frontiers. Inspired by the great doctor saints of the Order –SS. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Catherine of Siena – we aim to penetrate the Truth of Jesus Christ and discover and preach that harmony between faith and reason that our broken world needs today. View full university
  12. The Pontifical Lateran University is a prestigious university based in Rome in the Holy See's extraterritorial area in Laterano. Born from the heart of the Church and located in the center of Rome, frequented by saints and popes in its more than two centuries of history, the Pontifical Lateran University proposes itself today avant-garde frontier in education and scientific research. The origin of the Pontifical Lateran University dates back to Pope Clement XIV, who reunited the Roman Seminary and the School of Theology of the Roman College, entrusting its direction to the secular clergy of the diocese of Rome. This new "institution" (founded by the Brief Commendatissimam of November 24, 1773) was under the immediate dependence of the Pope, who called it "College, Seminary, and University". Pope Leo XII, returning the Roman College to the Society of Jesus, with the Brief Recolentes animo of April 10, 1824, wanted the Schools and the Seminary to continue in the palace of Sant'Apollinare, which thus became the "Roman Seminary" (for which it was promulgated the Ordinatio Seminarii Romans). Equipped with canonical independence, he had the power to confer the degree of Doctor in S. Theology. In 1828, the one in Philosophy was added. The Pontifical Lateran University (Pontificia Università Lateranense or Lateranum), also sometimes referred to as the Pontifical University of Apollinaire, is a university by pontifical right based in Rome. The present Pontifical Lateran University was founded in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV after he had suppressed the Society of Jesus and officially entrusted the clergy of Rome with the mission to teach theology and philosophy to seminarians from the Roman Colleges. At the Pontifical Lateran University, you will meet young people and professors from all over the world. Among the 4,000 enrolled at our campus, there are students from 105 different countries, and our professors come from 20 different countries. Throughout the world, there are 41 institutes connected to our University. The University is linked to the university Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis and the Theological Institute of Assisi. The Theological Institute of Assisi is a training college established in 1971 in Assisi in the structures of Saint Francis, sharing the premises of the Sacred Convent with the community of Friars Minor Conventual. The Institute also has a documentation center. Since 1993, it is attached to the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University Lateran and serves as the academic institution designed to train students in theology. It organizes courses of studies leading to diplomas of Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Licentiate of Sacred Theology and Franciscan studies for those wishing to be recruited into the church office or intending to teach the Catholic religion in schools. Over 200 teachers from more than 20 countries.More than 40 locations worldwide.A place where one can meet and exchange ideas with students from over 105 countries Advanced language instruction:- Foreign language courses on-site or at affiliated centers abroad Study of the Italian language and culture Study of classical languages, Latin and Greek Personal attention to each student:- Orientation services to welcome new students Practical diplomatic support available for all students Academic accompaniment available through the assignment of a tutor/ student advisor View full university
  13. The Pontifical Gregorian University (Italian: Pontificia Università Gregoriana, also known as the Gregoriana) is a higher education religious school (pontifical university) located in Rome, Italy. It was initially a part of the Roman College founded in 1551 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and included all schooling grades. The university division of philosophy and theology of the Roman College was given Papal approval in 1556, making it the first university founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). In 1584 the Roman College was given a grandiose new home by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was renamed. It was already making its mark not only in sacred but also in natural science. In 1551 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, opened a School of Grammar and Christian Doctrine in Rome without charge that was soon transformed into the Roman College. Those of Philosophy and Theology soon joined the first humanistic studies. In 1556, the Roman College received permission to grant academic degrees. From its beginning, the college was seen as a crossroad between Church and society, faith and culture, faith and justice, faith and science1. The Gregorian is an Ecclesiastical, Pontifical, and Jesuit University. Rooted in the Ignatian spirit, it aims to form men and women from every culture so that they can find God wherever they will live (in all things). As a University, it seeks excellence in teaching, personal reflection, and research, offering its students a harmonic synthesis between human knowledge and the light of faith according to the appropriate method for each academic discipline. Being aware of the interrelationship between science and the continuing evolution of knowledge fosters an interdisciplinary approach in its research methods and updating the university community through the new tools of communication for distance learning. It is composed of diverse Faculties and Institutes established by the Holy See and conferring by this authority canonical academic degrees2. Besides theology, canon law, and philosophy, Church History, and other human sciences4, in an attempt to always probe more deeply into the mystery of God who reveals himself and his salvation, realized in Christ, inhuman situations, in history, and the Church5. At the same time, with faithfulness to the Magisterial Church, it faces profound new challenges that come from an ever-changing world pervaded by non-belief and injustice6. As a Pontifical University, it collaborates closely with the Petrine ministry by cultivating unity of faith concerning the diversity of cultures that distinguishes the Church in its many local settings. The heritage of its long Christian tradition seeks the common roots that allow the true faith to illuminate the plurality of existing situations in today's world as it is moving toward social and economic globalization7. As a Jesuit University, and thus animated by the Ignatian spirit, it is characterized by its service available to the Holy See8. Its pedagogy, rooted in the personal and professional relationship between professors and students, insists more on the assimilation of wisdom than the multiplication of knowledge. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach that gives students an integral formation. It offers a mentoring relationship to develop his or her personality, at greater inner freedom, and at accepting personal responsibility. With creative fidelity, it accepts and communicates the ecclesial values that are hallmarks of the Society of Jesus as imperative in God's plan for humanity: the social sense of a faith that works for peace truth justice dialogue with the world of culture and science the promotion of Christian unity and interreligious dialogue the value and dignity of each person and creation itself9 As a university at the Church's service worldwide, it earnestly seeks to maintain the universality of its own teaching body. It takes to heart the necessary incarnation of the gospel message. View full university
  14. The Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences «Auxilium» is an ecclesiastical Faculty founded canonically at the Istituto delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice (Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians or Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) in 1970. Its origins date back to 1954 when the Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice founded the International Higher Institute of Pedagogy and Religious Studies in Turin, which was recognized and approved by the Sacred Congregation for Religious in 1956. In 1966, by Decree of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, the Institute was incorporated into the Higher Institute of Pedagogy at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. The legal and academic ties between the two bodies were later redefined so that by 1970 the «Auxilium» had its statutes. To this day, however, the Faculty's Chancellor, the Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, also heads the Salesian Pontifical University. In 1978, the Faculty moved its headquarters to Rome. Faithful to the original inspiration and guidance of the Magisterium of the Church, it is committed to understanding the requests for training from different cultures to provide adequate responses and new perspectives. With the Holy See becoming a signatory of the Bologna Process, the Faculty is working to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher education, aiming to foster mutual recognition of training courses. The «Auxilium» continues to carry out its academic mission with the practicality and vision typical of the Salesian approach, a heritage which the University preserves and develops. The Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences «Auxilium» fosters and promotes research in educational sciences and trains researchers, teachers, and professionals at various levels in the field of education. Following a Christian perspective and aiming to help people fully achieve their potential, the Faculty believes that philosophy and theology play a fundamental role in well-balanced training in educational sciences. The Faculty's understanding of educational sciences respects the different education dimensions, approaching it from various angles - philosophical, theological, psychological, sociological, historical, legal, methodological, and communicative. The Faculty, therefore, offers general teacher training, together with specialized study in one of the fields of educational sciences. In keeping with Don Bosco's principles of Christian humanism in education, the Faculty studies the educational issues related to infancy, childhood, and adolescence, with particular attention on women's development. Auxilium is a leading Faculty for the training of education professionals. The Faculty operates primarily in the fields of training, study, and research and has the following aims: To maintain its position as a leading training institution for education professionals through constant innovation in the training provided and in the teaching and learning strategies applied To provide comprehensive training in the field of educational sciences To train both lay and religious students within the context of the new evangelism, preparing them for intercultural and interreligious dialogue To be involved in the international scientific community as a significant point of reference for reflection and research in the field of education To promote humanism, which comprehensively protects and educates individuals, using development and innovation to empower women and young people. View full university
  15. Comillas is a Catholic university that has been run for over a century by the Society of Jesus, a private institution that manages several universities throughout the world. Our university mission has always been based on a combination of the educational experience built up over our extensive history and constant evolution in response to social change. Being open to society is extremely important under the trying circumstances in which we live, and now more than ever, good communication between universities and society is essential. This is why Comillas has always worked in ongoing and close collaboration with business-related, professional, and social organizations. After a century of university experience at COMILLAS, we are keenly aware that many things have changed since the University was founded. Spanish universities have moved on from the education of a select social minority toward a universal social mission. Catholicism is no longer the Official State Religion, and the Church has lived through the fruitful opening of the Second Vatican Council. Spanish society has assumed a more European and even global character. The effect of these profound changes on COMILLAS can be seen in the University's move from Comillas to Madrid, in the broad expansion of its educational offer (Humanities and Technical Sciences as well as Ecclesiastic Sciences), and its ongoing commitment to evolution and modernization based on reliable and permanent foundations. Our university mission is firmly rooted within this evolutionary process's framework, of the growing plurality of Spanish universities and new social and ecclesiastic needs and challenges. Our aim is that every person to form part of our University receives a comprehensive education: focusing not only on academic training but also on their own free will, their human, ethical and aesthetic awareness, capacity for personal reflection, and sense of responsibility. In short, COMILLAS aims to contribute to the full personal development of all its students. Values can be described as the things that we, as human beings, value the principles we are prepared to make sacrifices. They give meaning to our existence. They influence the way we think, how we feel, and the action we take. No training or education program for human beings can be permitted the luxury of preceding some values. COMILLAS will select and promote, within its nature. However, always most independently, the personal and social values it feels are fundamental to any given society, and especially in divided and unjust societies: mutual respect interpersonal dialog responsible freedom the search for justice and peace quantified professionalism accessibility helping others solidarity with those who are most in need and a critical, balanced, and long-term outlook A solid base for building a critical approach requires science, the interdisciplinary search for Truth, the assimilation of fundamental values, and a deep understanding of social reality. Only upon these foundations, a genuinely human and global critical approach can be developed and applied. This critical approach must serve to discern any human manifestation. COMILLAS can only promote a critical approach among its students if, as an institution, it also adopts this attitude. Therefore, the University sees self-criticism as a personal obligation, carried out through internal debate and critical analysis of the social and cultural situations in which it is immersed. View full university
  16. The Dominican House of Studies traces its mission to the preaching charism and Catholic intellectual heritage bequeathed to the Order of Preachers by its founder, St. Dominic de Guzman. Dominic constructed a religious order international in scope yet decentralized in structure to address the needs of the Church by preparing preachers, both intellectually informed and pastorally competent. This evangelizing mission is asserted in the primary claim of the Fundamental Constitution of the Order of Preachers that the Order was instituted "especially for preaching and the salvation of souls." To prepare preachers, Dominic established houses near the leading universities of his time. Students of the Order could follow a prescribed course of study in preparation for their pastoral work. Dominic insisted that spiritual formation is essential to the intellectual formation. The academic study was situated within a religious community shaped by ordinary life, liturgical prayer, modified monastic observance, a democratic form of government, and fraternal charity. St. Thomas Aquinas completed this vision by sharpening the speculative quest for truth within a broad Aristotelian framework, marked by a respect for the scientific method, freedom of inquiry, the broadness of scope, the precision of concepts, and largeness of spirit. Thomas remains even today guide and model of the Dominican intellectual life because of his docility of mind to Revelation, unwavering respect for the visible world and the human person, and unflagging commitment to think with and within the Church. The Dominican House of Studies is the direct heir to this theological and spiritual tradition that Dominic founded. Thomas developed a theological heritage, both speculatively inclined and pastorally charged, that spans eight centuries. In service to the Dominican Order's evangelizing mission, the primary purpose of the Dominican House of Studies is to provide a Catholic theological education that prepares students for the ordained ministry in the Province of St. Joseph. Recognizing the broad appeal of theological education in the Dominican tradition, the Dominican House of Studies accepts all interested and qualified students without regard to race, gender, religion, or ethnic background. The Dominican House of Studies is committed to imparting to all of its students a capacity for serious scholarship and basic competence in philosophy and theology through the study of St. Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with the best of contemporary thought. For ministry preparation, it offers a comprehensive program of studies integrated with spiritual and pastoral components to form students imbued with a desire for holiness, capable of effective preaching, and competent pastoral ministry. With an academic environment shaped by a Thomistic focus, a small student enrollment, and a high faculty-student ratio, the Dominican House of Studies fosters among students and faculty an intimacy conducive to the personal formation in the spiritual, intellectual, and ministerial spheres of preaching, teaching, and other ministries. The Pontifical Faculty believes that a bachelor's degree is essential preparation for theological study. Applicants for admission to the Pontifical Faculty are required to hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, from a college or university, regionally accredited in the United States or Canada. Taking courses at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception is a great way to continue to learn and grow in the Catholic Faith. To serve those who wish to further their education and their professional competence, but who do not currently desire to embark on a full degree program, the PFIC offers courses on an individual basis. Courses may be audited or taken for credit throughout the year. Persons who have earned a B.A. degree or equivalent from an accredited institution may take up to four courses per semester as a non-matriculated student. Admission as a Non-Degree Seeking (N.D.S.) student does not constitute admission to any degree program. However, suppose such a student should later apply for admission to a degree program. In that case, course credits earned in the non-degree seeking study may be applied to the degree, and the application fee for the degree would also be waived. Persons may also audit courses to understand that no papers or examinations will be required or graded, and no academic credit will be given. All N.D.S. students must submit an application, official transcripts, an application fee, and a recent photo. Students who attend the PFIC are most concerned with intellectual and spiritual growth, and the school is ordered to provide an atmosphere conducive to that end. As the genuine study of theology requires living a life of grace, the PFIC offers many opportunities to grow spiritually. All students are welcome to join the Dominican community for prayer, both for Mass and the Divine Office. The chapel is open for personal prayer throughout the day. Many Dominican priests are available as confessors or spiritual directors, and special Masses and adoration are offered for the students throughout the year. One of the unique benefits of study at the PFIC is studying alongside many Dominicans and other diocesan and religious seminarians and priests, whose joy and dedication foster hope for the future of the Church. There is a student lounge where students gather between classes to relax with some coffee and conversation, and the library provides a pleasant and quiet place to study. Also, throughout the year, there are occasional casual gatherings and outings planned for the non-Dominican students. The students elect a student representative who regularly meets with the administration to foster a healthy and happy relationship and experience. View full university
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