Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:25:03 AM
Pontifical Catholic University Of Peru Stripped By Vatican Of Right To Call Itself Catholic
Reuters | Posted: 07/21/2012 7:28 am Updated: 07/21/2012 8:56 am
VATICAN CITY, July 21 (Reuters) - The Vatican has stripped the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, one of the most prominent centres of learning in Latin America, of its right to continue calling itself a Catholic or pontifical university, saying it had damaged the interests of the Church.
The university in the Peruvian capital, Lima, was founded in 1917 and has been identified with liberal, progressive thinking for decades.
Gustavo Gutierrez, the priest considered the founder of the Liberation Theology movement, taught there for years. Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and former President Alan Garcia are both graduates.
The Vatican said on Saturday that the break came after the university had several times unilaterally modified its statutes and had "gravely prejudiced the interests of the Church". It did not elaborate.
The rector of the university, Marcial Rubio, has been at odds with the archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, over control of the institution.
In 1986, the university gave an honorary doctorate to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)
Copyright 2012 Reuters
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Elite Peruvian university stripped of Catholic credentials
The school formerly called the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
By David Kerr
Vatican City, Jul 21, 2012 / 08:07 am (CNA/EWTN News [ http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/ ])
The Vatican has announced it is stripping the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru of its Catholic identity after the elite university repeatedly refused to comply with the Church’s requirements for colleges.
“The Holy See, with Decree of His Eminence the Secretary of State, under a specific Pontifical mandate, has decided to remove from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru the right to use in its name the titles “Pontifical” and “Catholic” in accordance with canon law,” reads a Vatican statement issued in Spanish and Italian on July 21.
Today’s move follows months of discussions between both sides, which began after a 2011 Vatican inspection of the university carried out by Cardinal Peter Erdo of Budapest. He traveled to Peru, where he found the Lima-based institution at odds with the Catholic Church in several significant areas of policy.
Today’s statement explains that the university’s management has, in fact, continually refused to comply with the Church’s guidelines over the past 22 years, despite numerous requests to do so by the Vatican.
It also reveals that the Peruvian university’s management sent two letters in recent months to the Vatican’s Secretary, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, re-confirming their “inability to implement the requirements” of changing their statutes.
The statement notes that the university has also been defying a ruling by the Peruvian civil courts to give the Archdiocese of Lima a seat on its board of directors.
The guidelines on what is expected of an authentically Catholic university were laid out in the papal document “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” which was promulgated in 1990 by Pope John Paul II.
The Pontifical University of Peru was founded in 1917 and was awarded its pontifical status by Pope Pius XII in 1942. It currently has over 16,000 undergraduate students and is regarded as one of the top universities in Peru.
Its alumni include President Ollanta Humala of Peru, as well as his immediate predecessor, Alan García, and the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. In 1986 the university gave an honorary doctorate to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.
The July 21 Vatican statement concluded with the promise that “the Holy See will continue to monitor the situation of the University” in the hope that the academic authorities will reconsider their position “in the near future.”
“The renewal requested by the Holy See will make the University more capable of responding to the task of bringing the message of Christ to man, society and culture, according to the mission of the Church in the world.”
Copyright © CNA
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Vatican strips Peru university of 'Catholic' title
The Vatican says the Peruvian university has drifted from its Catholic roots
21 July 2012 Last updated at 12:27 ET
The Vatican has stripped one of Latin America's top universities of the right to call itself Catholic or Pontifical.
It says the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru has damaged the interests of the church.
The Vatican has been locked in a decades-long struggle with the institution, which it accuses of drifting from its Catholic origins.
The university in the Peruvian capital Lima has long been identified with liberal, progressive thinking.
It was founded in 1917 and formally established as a Catholic institution by the Vatican in 1942.
However, the university has changed its statutes numerous times over the past few decades, angering the Catholic establishment in Rome.
One aspect of the dispute is that the Vatican wants the university to give the conservative archbishop of Lima a seat on its governing board.
The university refused him a post, despite a Peruvian court having ruled in 2010 that he had the right to one.
Peru's current and former presidents are both graduates of the university.
Gustavo Gutierrez, the priest considered the founder of the Liberation Theology movement, also taught there for years.
BBC © 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18939177
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Reuters | Posted: 07/21/2012 7:28 am Updated: 07/21/2012 8:56 am
VATICAN CITY, July 21 (Reuters) - The Vatican has stripped the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, one of the most prominent centres of learning in Latin America, of its right to continue calling itself a Catholic or pontifical university, saying it had damaged the interests of the Church.
The university in the Peruvian capital, Lima, was founded in 1917 and has been identified with liberal, progressive thinking for decades.
Gustavo Gutierrez, the priest considered the founder of the Liberation Theology movement, taught there for years. Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and former President Alan Garcia are both graduates.
The Vatican said on Saturday that the break came after the university had several times unilaterally modified its statutes and had "gravely prejudiced the interests of the Church". It did not elaborate.
The rector of the university, Marcial Rubio, has been at odds with the archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, over control of the institution.
In 1986, the university gave an honorary doctorate to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)
Copyright 2012 Reuters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/21/vatican-censures-leading-_n_1691532.html [with comments]
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Elite Peruvian university stripped of Catholic credentials
The school formerly called the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
By David Kerr
Vatican City, Jul 21, 2012 / 08:07 am (CNA/EWTN News [ http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/ ])
The Vatican has announced it is stripping the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru of its Catholic identity after the elite university repeatedly refused to comply with the Church’s requirements for colleges.
“The Holy See, with Decree of His Eminence the Secretary of State, under a specific Pontifical mandate, has decided to remove from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru the right to use in its name the titles “Pontifical” and “Catholic” in accordance with canon law,” reads a Vatican statement issued in Spanish and Italian on July 21.
Today’s move follows months of discussions between both sides, which began after a 2011 Vatican inspection of the university carried out by Cardinal Peter Erdo of Budapest. He traveled to Peru, where he found the Lima-based institution at odds with the Catholic Church in several significant areas of policy.
Today’s statement explains that the university’s management has, in fact, continually refused to comply with the Church’s guidelines over the past 22 years, despite numerous requests to do so by the Vatican.
It also reveals that the Peruvian university’s management sent two letters in recent months to the Vatican’s Secretary, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, re-confirming their “inability to implement the requirements” of changing their statutes.
The statement notes that the university has also been defying a ruling by the Peruvian civil courts to give the Archdiocese of Lima a seat on its board of directors.
The guidelines on what is expected of an authentically Catholic university were laid out in the papal document “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” which was promulgated in 1990 by Pope John Paul II.
The Pontifical University of Peru was founded in 1917 and was awarded its pontifical status by Pope Pius XII in 1942. It currently has over 16,000 undergraduate students and is regarded as one of the top universities in Peru.
Its alumni include President Ollanta Humala of Peru, as well as his immediate predecessor, Alan García, and the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. In 1986 the university gave an honorary doctorate to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.
The July 21 Vatican statement concluded with the promise that “the Holy See will continue to monitor the situation of the University” in the hope that the academic authorities will reconsider their position “in the near future.”
“The renewal requested by the Holy See will make the University more capable of responding to the task of bringing the message of Christ to man, society and culture, according to the mission of the Church in the world.”
Copyright © CNA
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/elite-peruvian-university-stripped-of-catholic-credentials/ [with comments]
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Vatican strips Peru university of 'Catholic' title
The Vatican says the Peruvian university has drifted from its Catholic roots
21 July 2012 Last updated at 12:27 ET
The Vatican has stripped one of Latin America's top universities of the right to call itself Catholic or Pontifical.
It says the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru has damaged the interests of the church.
The Vatican has been locked in a decades-long struggle with the institution, which it accuses of drifting from its Catholic origins.
The university in the Peruvian capital Lima has long been identified with liberal, progressive thinking.
It was founded in 1917 and formally established as a Catholic institution by the Vatican in 1942.
However, the university has changed its statutes numerous times over the past few decades, angering the Catholic establishment in Rome.
One aspect of the dispute is that the Vatican wants the university to give the conservative archbishop of Lima a seat on its governing board.
The university refused him a post, despite a Peruvian court having ruled in 2010 that he had the right to one.
Peru's current and former presidents are both graduates of the university.
Gustavo Gutierrez, the priest considered the founder of the Liberation Theology movement, also taught there for years.
BBC © 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18939177
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