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In 1981, Pope John Paul II founded the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Apostolic Constitution Magnum Matrimonii Sacramentum, as part of the effort to develop study on the themes around the marriage and family, as well as Catholic theology on the body. [1]
The Catholic University of America School of Theology and Religious Studies: Washington, D.C. Mark M. Morozowich (Acting Dean) 1980: Roman Catholic Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary: Henderson, Texas: Steve Butler, (Academic Dean) 1948: Baptist The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology: Seattle, Washington: J. Derek McNeil (Acting Dean) 2013
The Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family is a Catholic research institution at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.The institute is devoted to the study of the truth about the human person in all of its dimensions: theological, philosophical, anthropological, and cosmological-scientific.
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
Catholic teaching on homosexuality is not founded on, and can never be used to justify homophobic attitudes." [90] He has also said: "In upholding the dignity of people who are homosexual the Church is being consistent to its teaching." Hume also taught that, in addition to prayer and the sacraments, pastoral care for LGBT Catholics should ...
This program served adult women who needed flexible schedules to earn a degree while balancing important family and job responsibilities. In 2005, the college expanded access to its undergraduate distance and adult programs to men, while maintaining its longstanding mission for the advancement of women's education.
The Catholic Church holds that marriage is a sacrament creating an indissoluble union between one man and one woman. [4] While the Catholic Church allows for the possibility of separation from a marriage in certain cases, [5] it does not recognize the validity of a subsequent marriage unless a declaration of nullity has been obtained regarding the first marriage [6] or the first spouse is ...
Some independent institutions, schools or university faculties, even at non-pontifical universities, can be ecclesiastical institutes, ecclesiastical schools or ecclesiastical faculties and may also be given charters by the Holy See to grant ecclesiastical degrees, usually in one or two specific fields.