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S i d e b a r
Where the Catholic Colleges Are
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This Rock
Volume 16, Number 9
 November 2005 
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According to the National Catholic Register, the following U.S. Catholic universities have advertised that all of their Catholic theology professors have the mandatum (their bishop’s recognition of their pledge to teach in communion with the magisterium of the Church).
Canon 812 of the Code of Canon Law 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)
- DeSales University (Center Valley, Pennsylvania)
- Franciscan University of Steubenville (Steubenville, Ohio)
- Magdalen College (Warner, New Hampshire)
- Our Lady of Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, Texas)
- Our Lady of Holy Cross College (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- St. Gregory’s University (Shawnee, Oklahoma)
- University of Dallas (Irving, Texas)
- University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas)
Oath of Fidelity Schools
These schools’ theology faculties have taken fidelity oaths in lieu of the mandatum. Both are in dioceses where the local bishop has not offered the mandatum.- Christendom College (Front Royal, Virginia)
- Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, California)
Here are the additional institutions that wrote to the National Catholic Register asking to be added to the mandatum list or that parents/others told us to add. Those with an asterisk we are reasonably certain can be added to the list. For obvious reasons, it’s difficult to ascertain the mandatum status at some of the other schools. There isn’t a single person who can be called to answer the question, and most of them do not advertise their status with regard to the mandatum.- Ave Maria College of the Americas (Carazo, Nicaragua)*
- Briar Cliff University (Sioux City, Iowa)*
- College of St. Thomas More (Fort Worth, Texas)*
- Dominican University, (River Forest, Illinois)
- John Paul the Great Catholic University (San Diego, California)*
- Marian College (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Mount St. Mary’s College (Emmitsburg, Maryland)*
- Newman University (Wichita, Kansas)*
- Providence College (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Rosemont College (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
- Saint Joseph’s College (Rensselaer, Indiana)
- Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island)
- Southern Catholic College (Dawsonville, Georgia)*
- St. Mary’s College (Livonia, Michigan)*
- St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)
- St. Xavier University (Chicago, Illinois)
- Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire)*
- University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
- University of Sacramento (Sacramento, California)*
- Viterbo College (La Crosse, Wisconsin)*
- Walsh University (North Canton, Ohio)
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