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Peru: Vatican to remove ‘Pontifical’ and ‘Catholic’ from PUCP’s name
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By Manuel Vigo
July 20, 2012
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Peru’s Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) is expected to lose the right to use the words ‘pontifical’ and ‘Catholic’ in its name, after failing to reach an agreement with the Catholic church.
According to Vatican Insider, the Holy See has already made the decision, and the final ruling will be announced on July 21, unless a last minute agreement is reached.
The website said the “the Holy See will declare that it no longer recognizes the university’s current structure because it is failing to engage in the original mission.”
The decision stems from disagreements between the PUCP and Lima´s Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani, who pushed for the university to be more in line with Biblical and Catholic teachings, and wanted a place on the university’s governing board.
Earlier this year the Vatican asked the PUCP to change its statutes as soon as possible, in order to meet the current standards outlined in the Apostolic Constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” written by Pope John Paul II in 1990, and which the church sys is compulsory for all Catholic academic institutions in the world.
The Vatican said the university was required to hand over its new statutes by April 8, but the PUCP did not comply.
According to Vatican Insider, the “Church hierarchy would ask the National Assembly of Rectors to forbid the PUCP from giving out degree titles in its name.”
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COMMENTS:
Total coments: 2
Commented By: Ira Angeles
On: July 20, 2012. 5:44 pm
There are not disagreements between the PUCP and some prelate. There are disagreements between the PUCP and Vatican. The main fact is that some authorities (not all) of the PUCP do not want follow anymore the mission that the PUCP asumed since its foundation en 1917. Therefore, the statues of the PUCP should be engaged with the guideline of Vatican. The PUCP was faithfull to Vatican until the 70´s aprox. In this decade, authorities of the PUCP changed the statues in bad faith in order to promote personal projects according with socialist ideology. They manipulated education laws given by a socialist military dictatorship to move away from Vatican. After that, in 90 and 2000 years, nobody could deny financial and even moral issues in the PUCP. Now the authorities of PUCP fear an external audit. So they try to block the participation of the Church to prevent the external audit. The goods of the PUCP were inherited by Riva-Agüero, a rich catholic writer. The will of Riva-Agüero ordered that a representative of the Church should participate in the management of the PUCP.
Commented By: An independent
On: July 21, 2012. 8:18 pm
I applaud the University's principled stance. No group of supposedly religious men should dictate academic freedom restrictions and expect thinking men and women to abide by their arbitrary opinion. This might have played well in the 13th century but not today.
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