Vatican presents guidelines for Catholic educational
institutions
Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.- RV |
(Vatican Radio) A press conference was held in the Holy See
Press Office on Friday to present the work of the Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum
educationis and the document “Educating to fraternal humanism.
Building a ‘civilization of love’ 50 years after Populorum progressio”.
Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, Prefect of the Congregation for
Catholic Education, presented the document at Friday’s press conference.
He said it contains the guidelines for education in fraternal humanism and
that it will be distributed to all 216,000 Catholic schools and universities
around the world.
'Fraternal humanism'
Entitled “Educating to fraternal humanism. Building a
‘civilization of love’ 50 years after Populorum progressio”, the
document seeks to trace a path forward in Catholic education based on the
principles set out in Populorum progressio.
The document says, “Our efforts at education will be
inadequate and ineffectual unless we strive to promote a new way of thinking
about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature”.
“Solidarity and brotherhood,” Cardinal Versaldi said, can be
promoted by Catholic schools and universities “through a formative experience
capable of integrating science and conscience.”
Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum educationis
The press conference also gave voice to the two-year old
Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum educationis, instituted by Pope
Francis in 2015.
Msgr. Guy-Réal Thivierge, the Foundations’ secretary
general, said its work is to incarnate the educative vision promoted by the
Congregation for Catholic Education.
He said the Foundation is inspired primarily by Church
teaching and by the charism of Pope Francis.
Key words behind its work, Msgr. Thivierge said, are
“inclusion, dialogue, cooperation, and transcendence.”
“The Foundation’s vocation is to enact innovative projects
to improve the quality of education, to promote scientific studies, and to
favor networking and collaboration between educational institutions,” he said.
At the heart of both the document and the Pontifical
Foundation, Cardinal Versaldi said, is the desire “to humanize education” in
order to build “a civilization of love”.
(Devin Sean Watkins)
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