Canadian colleges and Ex corde ecclesiae (Canada).Toronto--The August 23 Catholic Register of Toronto published an article saying that the Canadian bishops and the Canadian Catholic universities and colleges had come to an agreement on the implementation of the apostolic ap·os·tol·ic ap·os·tol·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to an apostle. 2. a. Of, relating to, or contemporary with the 12 Apostles. b. letter Ex corde ecclesiae Ex Corde Ecclesiae (Latin:"From the Heart of the Church") is an Apostolic constitution written by Pope John Paul II regarding Catholic colleges and universities. It was promulgated on August 15, 1990. , dealing with Catholic institutions of higher learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. . This, the weekly stated, "meets the expectations and aspiration aspiration /as·pi·ra·tion/ (as?pi-ra´shun) 1. the drawing of a foreign substance, such as the gastric contents, into the respiratory tract during inhalation. 2. of all parties concerned." The Catholic Register, however, did not see the agreement but was simply quoting Bede Hubbard, the assistant general secretary of the Bishops' Conference. Indeed, the bishops' conference refuses to let anyone see the agreement. It wants to have the agreement approved by Rome before it is made public. This then means that one cannot say that the agreement has met the "expectations and aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl of all parties concerned," unless university students, their parents, their professors, and Catholics interested in the Catholicity of our educational institutions do not count as "interested parties." One wonders how Canadian faculty members will react when they are asked or told to submit to the provisions of a document which concerns them directly, but which they have never seen before. |
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