Mandatum Secrecy Series — Final

Those who are contemplating a Catholic college or university to which to send your children or attend oneself should give preference, it seems to me, to those that are open to fulfilling both canonical requirements and the affirmation of the mandate as expressed in Ex Corde Ecclesiae.

It seems foolish to spend one's life trying to impart the faith to one's children only to have it systematically destroyed by professors or teachers who are more concerned with their "truth" rather than the truth as held by the Church.

[S]ince 1983, canon law has required that a theologian teaching in any university receive a mandatum from the local bishop. The requirement was highlighted in a footnote in Ex Corde Ecclesiae.

Canon 812 reads: “It is necessary that those who teach theological disciplines in any institute of higher studies have a mandatum from the competent ecclesiastical authority.”

National Catholic Register article on the progress (or lack of progress) of implementing the mandatum is here.