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In the context of the new chair, fruit of the impulse granted by Pope Francis to the Marriage and Family Sciences, the UCAM and the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II have signed an agreement for the worldwide dissemination of the Pope's doctrine

Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, great Chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute Juan Pablo II, and José Luis Mendoza, president of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), formalized the agreements yesterday in Rome that will allow creating a Degree and an Online Master

Yesterday, the Gaudium et Spes Chair was inaugurated at the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for the sciences of marriage and the family at the headquarters of Rome, a direct consequence of the process of reconstruction of the Institute begun months ago.

As Pope Francis pointed out in a letter sent to Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, the Institute's great chancellor, not only do they intend to invest resources in research on the theme of the Family, in relation to the new social context, in Italy, in the West and beyond, but the goal is to create an academic environment in which the new pastoral challenges to which the Christian community is called to respond are recognized.

The creation of this new research and teaching center is in line with the trajectory of more than thirty years of the Institute: the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes of Vatican II, which represented a fundamental step for the updating of the way in which the Church He saw marriage and family and progressed in a particular way with Amoris Laetitia.

The ceremony was the framework chosen for Monsignor Paglia and the president of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), José Luis Mendoza, to seal the collaboration of the university institution in the implementation of the renewal desired by Pope Francis through the signing of an international agreement.

In it, José Luis Mendoza has placed at the service of the Pontifical Institute, of the entire Christian community and of the entire human family the experience that UCAM has acquired in its 21 years of history.

In his speech, the president of the UCAM stressed "the need to provide the needy with a quality education always in communion with the magisterium of the Pope."

The initiatives

For this, a degree and a distance Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Sciences will be launched in collaboration with the UCAM.

The distance modality will allow access to the course to a much larger number of students, making the course accessible to students from other Institute headquarters, specifically in Africa and India;

This will allow these academic institutions to disseminate their proposal more widely, reaching very distant realities that do not have the opportunity to attend the courses in person.

The Degree and the Master will be activated throughout the academic year 2018-2019, but already during the spring of 2018 two "pilot" courses will be proposed by the professors Monsignor Sequeri and Monsignor Marengo.

Also in collaboration with the UCAM, a World Observatory on the Family and a digital library Amoris Laetitia will be created that will make accessible the conceptual tools, the essays and the magazines on the theme of love, marriage and the family with the intention of favoring the understanding of ecclesial teachings and the deepening of these topics from an academic-pastoral perspective.

Source: UCAM