Pontifical University of Santa Croce

Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis
founding	1984
Sponsorship	Catholic Church (Personal Prelature Opus Dei )
place	Rome
country	Italy
Rector	Luis Navarro
Students	1,404 (2016/2017)
Professors	187 lecturers (2016/2017)
Website	www.pusc.it

The Pontifical University of Santa Croce (also Pontifical University of the Holy Cross , Latin : Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis , Italian : Pontificia Università della Santa Croce , abbreviation : PUSC ) is a university under papal law in Rome under the direction of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei .

The main building of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce is the Palazzo dell'Apollinare north of Piazza Navona and opposite the Palazzo Altemps . As a university church , the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare is attached to the Apollinare Palace. This church was built from 1742 to 1748 based on a design by Ferdinando Fuga .

Historical overview

In October 1984 the university began teaching as the Centro Accademico Romano della Santa Croce . At the request of the then chancellor and prelates of Opus Dei, Alvaro del Portillo , ordered the Congregation for Catholic Education with the decree Dei Servus on 9 January 1985, the canonical erection of the Roman section of the faculties of theology and canon law , which was founded by Opus Dei Pontifical University of Navarra in Spanish Pamplona . In the first academic year 1984/1985 of the new Roman Athenaeum Santa Croce , as the institution was then called, 41 students from 22 countries enrolled. This was an early wish of the founder of Opus Dei, St. Josemaría Escrivá , agreed to establish an academic training center in the Eternal City .

With the decree of the Congregation for Catholic Education of January 9, 1990, Pope John Paul II elevated the College to the status of a Pontifical University and appointed the Prelate of Opus Dei as Grand Chancellor. This is Fernando Ocáriz Braña since 2016 .

Palazzo dell'Apollinare, main building and seat of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce

Organization and teaching

The University of Santa Croce has four faculties:

• theology
• Canon Law
• philosophy
• Institutional social communication

The theological faculty is affiliated with the Institute for Religious Studies , the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose all'Apollinare , which mainly trains laypeople as religion teachers. In its teaching method ("complex learning"), the institute combines the traditional compulsory attendance with distance learning . Since 2012, it has offered the specialization Religion and Society as a degree . The new specialization Christian Humanism and Economic Development will be offered from the 2015/16 academic year .

The Historical Institute of San Josemaría Escrivá , established on January 9, 2001, is connected to the university. It conducts historical, but also theological and canonical research on St. Josemaria and his message promotes.

Facade of the University Church of Sant'Apollinare (built 1742–1748 based on a design by Ferdinando Fuga )

The Liturgical Institute was founded at the Faculty of Theology in 2009 and its range of courses is designed for licentiate and doctoral studies . In the Department of Church History , the Theological Faculty offers two year-long specialization programs From the Mediterranean to Europe: Christianity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages and Beyond Europe: Christianity in the Modern and Contemporary World . They correspond to the licentiate courses in the specialization church history.

The Theological Faculty also has the departments of Dogmatic Theology, Moral Theology, Spiritual Theology and Holy Scripture.

The Faculty of Institutional Social Communication was established in 1996. In addition to its academic curriculum, the communication faculty organizes conferences and training seminars for journalists and members of church press offices. The professional development program also takes into account conflict situations and their treatment by church decision-makers in contact with the media.

Since 2006 , the Faculty of Communication has offered courses in the fields of art and communication of faith , while the Faculty of Theology also offers Christian art history and liturgical art. Your story from antiquity to the present . At German universities, these subjects are not part of the compulsory curriculum for theology studies , although the Second Vatican Council wanted to include art. The University of Santa Croce tries to counteract this deficit in theological education.

In addition, the German art historian Ralf van Bühren shows the relevance of art history for cultural journalism , for public relations (PR) and media presence of the church as well as for journalistic communication about faith. His English-language lectures ( Christian Art and Architecture in Rome. From Antiquity to the Present ) are open to students from international universities.

On average, around 1,400 students are enrolled at the university each year, currently from 81 countries (as of 2017). The acting rector has been the canon lawyer Luis Navarro since 2016. His predecessor was the philosopher Luis Romera (2008-2016), professor of the philosophy of religion and metaphysics .

Research and publications

The University of Santa Croce has the following research centers:

• Markets, Culture and Ethics (MCE)
• Family and Media (Centro studi sul rapporto tra Famiglia e Media)
• Centro di Documentazione interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede (DISF)

The scientific journals published at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce are:

• Church, Communication and Culture (open access): Faculty of Communication
• Ius Ecclesiae : Faculty of Canon Law
• Annales Theologici : Theological Faculty
• Acta Philosophica : Faculty of Philosophy

The Edizioni Università della Santa Croce publishing house publishes, among other things, studies, manuals, conference files and dissertations from the departments of the four faculties and the Institute for Religious Studies.

Church of San Girolamo della Carità (1654–1660), entrance on the Piazza di Santa Caterina della Rota. On the right, the back buildings of the Santa Croce University Library

University library

The university library, founded in 1984, is located in the VII. Roman Rione Regola right next to the church of San Girolamo della Carità (built 1654–1660), south of the Piazza Farnese . The library has a collection of around 200,000 items.

The main entrance to the complex is Via dei Farnesi, 83. The library is also accessible to external students and researchers. It is one of the few libraries in Rome that is open in July and August.

The building complex includes the historical rooms in which Saint Philip Neri worked from 1551 to 1574 and held his oratory meetings there, attended by Cesare Baronio , Francesco Maria Tarugi, Ottavio Paravicini and Antonio Gallonio.

Personalities

• Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (* 1951), Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts (former Dean )
• Prelate Christoph Bockamp , Regional Vicar of Opus Dei for Germany ( doctorate )
• Ralf van Bühren (* 1962), professor of art history and architectural history
• Ignacio Carrasco de Paula (* 1937), bioethicist, Rector of the PUSC (1984–1994), President of the Pontifical Academy for Life
• Marco Antonio Cortez Lara (* 1957), Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua , Peru ( Laureate )
• Bishop Javier Echevarría (1932-2016), Prelate of Opus Dei (Grand Chancellor)
• Archbishop Georg Gänswein (* 1956), papal private secretary ( visiting professor )
• José Francisco González González (* 1966), Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara , Mexico (Laureate)
• Johannes Grohe (* 1954), Professor of Medieval Church History and Council History
• Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak (* 1964), former secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family and Bishop of Sosnowitz (doctorate)
• Wiesław Lechowicz (* 1962), auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Tarnów , Poland (doctorate)
• Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães C.Ss.R. (* 1946), Bishop of Garanhuns , Brazil ( licentiate )
• Stefan Mückl (* 1970), legal scholar (lecturer)
• Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936–2017), former press officer and media director of the Holy See (visiting professor)
• Joseph Pandarasseril , Auxiliary Bishop in the Archeparchy of Kottayam , India (Licentiate)
• Helmuth Pree (* 1950), Professor of Canon Law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (visiting professor)
• Martin Rhonheimer (* 1950), Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Camillo Cardinal Ruini (* 1931), vicar general emeritus for the Diocese of Rome ( honorary doctorate )
• Oscar Domingo Sarlinga (* 1963), Bishop of Zárate-Campana , Argentina (doctorate)
• Bishop Antoni Stankiewicz (* 1935), Dean of the Court of the Roman Rota (2004–2012) (professorship)
• Rolf Thomas (1934–2016), priest and pastor, (professorship)
• Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki (* 1956), Archbishop of Cologne (doctorate)
• Alexis Touably Youlo (* 1959), Bishop of Agboville , Ivory Coast (licentiate)

See also

• Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei
• Pontifical University of Navarre

literature

• Giovanni Tridente, Cristian Mendoza (ed.): Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. Dono e compito. 25 anni di attività / Pontifical University of The Holly Cross. A gift and a calling. 25 years of activities , Cinisello Balsamo (Milano): Silvana Editoriale 2010 ( http://www.pusc.it/node/613 )
• Ralf van Bühren : Universal Church and Universality. New projects at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome , in: Die Tagespost, July 21, 2011, p. 7 online (PDF file).

Web links

• Pontificia Università della Santa Croce - University website (Italian, English, Spanish)
• Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose all'Apollinare - Institute for Advanced Religious Studies
• Istituto storico San Josemaría Escrivá - Historical Research Institute (multilingual)
• Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Foundation - Foundation to support the university and needy students (English)
• Collegio Ecclesiastico Internazionale Sedes Sapientiae - International Seminary of the University (Italian)
• Collegio Sacerdotale Tiberino - College of Priests of the University (Italian)
• Collegio Sacerdotale Altomonto - College of Priests of the University (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.pusc.it/info/autorita-accademiche
2. ↑ ^{a b} Liber annualis 2016–2017 . Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome 2017, p. 46.
3. ↑ Liber annualis 2016–2017 . Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome 2017, p. 45.
4. ^ Current chronicle of the university ( memento of March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Italian.
5. ↑ Ralf van Bühren: Universal Church and Universality in: Die Tagespost, July 21, 2011.
6. ^ Historical beginnings ( Memento of March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Italian
7. ^ University management ( memento of October 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ See Bühren 2011.
9. ↑ Study plan. of the Institute for Religious Studies.
10. ↑ Study plan.
11. ↑ See the. Homepage (Engl.) ( Memento from 1 January 2012 at the Internet Archive ) of the Historical Institute in Rome. The previous institute was at the Pontifical University of Navarra: Università di Navarra: Finalita (Italian) ( Memento of June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
12. ^ Dal Mediterraneo all'Europa: il cristianesimo antico e medievale.
13. ↑ Oltre l'Europa: il cristianesimo nel mondo moderno e contemporaneo.
14. ↑ See the multilingual website Dipartimento di Storia della Chiesa (Faculty of Church History) ( Memento of October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
15. ↑ See Bühren 2011.
16. ↑ See Bühren 2011.
17. ^ Ralf van Bühren Caravaggio's 'Seven Works of Mercy' in Naples. The relevance of art history to cultural journalism , 2017.
18. ^ "Religious studies at Santa Croce"; see. the homepage at the university.
19. ^ Message from Vatican Radio from September 16, 2008: Il prof. Luis Romera è il nuovo rettore dell'Università della Santa Croce .
20. ↑ http://www.mceproject.org/ .
21. ↑ http://www.familyandmedia.eu/ .
22. ↑ http://www.disf.org/ .
23. ^ Homepage of the online journal Church, Communication and Culture published by Taylor & Francis, Abingdon (Oxfordshire).
24. ↑ Information on the journal Ius Ecclesiae ; For other publications, see the website of the Faculty of Canon Law .
25. ↑ Homepage of the journal Annales Theologici (see English version); For other publications see the website of the Theological Faculty .
26. ↑ Homepage of the journal Acta Philosophica ; (see English version); For other publications, see the website of the Philosophical Faculty .
27. ↑ http://edizionisantacroce.it/ .
28. ↑ Presentation of the university library : Biblioteca: Presentazione , accessed on April 25, 2018.
29. ↑ See Bühren 2011.