Canon 640

1. The Catholic university aims at making the Christian view-point present by promoting a deeper study of all cultures in a

public, stable and universal manner; therefore it consists of

education of a higher order, research, reflection and teaching,

in which the various areas of human knowledge are illumined by

the light of the gospel. 2. Other institutes of higher education or autonomous Catholic faculties having the same object are

equivalent to Catholic universities, however ecclesiastical universities and faculties dealt with in cann. 646-650, are not.