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Mandatum Schools

This is a partial list of U.S. Catholic Universities who publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum (their bishop´s recognition of their pledge to teach in communion with the magisterium of the Church). Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school. 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." Aquinas College, Nashville, Tennessee Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, Michigan Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas Our Lady of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio Magdalen College, Warner, New Hampshire Our Lady of Holy Cross College, New Orleans, Louisiana St. Gregory´s University, Shawnee, Oklahoma University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas Oath of Fidelity Schools This is a partial list of schools whose theology faculties have taken fidelity oaths in lieu of the mandatum. Most are in dioceses where the local bishop has not offered the mandatum. Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school. Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California Thanks to National Catholic Register