CHAPTER II
: CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTES OF HIGHER STUDIES
Can.
807 The Church has the right to establish and to govern universi-ties, which
serve to promote the deeper culture and fuller development of the human person,
and to complement the Church's own teaching office.
Can.
808 No university, even if it is in fact catholic, may bear the title 'catholic
university' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.
Can.
809 If it is possible and appropriate, Episcopal Conferences are to take care
to have within their territories suitably located universities or at least
faculties, in which the various disciplines, while retaining their own
scientific autonomy, may be researched and taught in the light of catholic
doctrine.
Can.
810 §1 In catholic universities it is the duty of the competent statutory
authority to ensure that there be appointed teachers who are not only qualified
in scientific and pedagogical expertise, but are also outstanding in their
integrity of doctrine and uprightness of life. If these requirements are found
to be lacking, it is also that authority's duty to see to it that these
teachers are removed from office, in accordance with the procedure determined
in the statutes.
§2 The
Episcopal Conference and the diocesan Bishops concerned have the duty and the
right of seeing to it that, in these universities, the principles of catholic
doctrine are faithfully observed.
Can.
811 §1 The competent ecclesiastical authority is to ensure that in catholic
universities there is established a faculty or an institute or at least a chair
of theology, in which lectures are given to lay students also.
§2 In every
catholic university there are to be lectures which principally treat of those
theological questions connected with the studies of each faculty.
Can.
812 Those who teach theological subjects in any institute of higher studies
must have a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority.
Can.
813 The diocesan Bishop is to be zealous in his pastoral care of students, even
by the creation of a special parish, or at least by appointing priests with a
stable assignment to this care. In all universities, even in those which are
not catholic, the diocesan Bishop is to provide catholic university centres, to
be of assistance to the young people, especially in spiritual matters.
Can.
814 The provisions which are laid down for universities apply equally to other
institutes of higher studies.
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