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The National Catholic Register has selected Catholic Distance University as one of the 31 colleges and universities nationwide included in its Catholic Identity Guide '11. The guide is based on CDU's responses to 10 questions which offers an objective look into the university's Catholic identity. According to the Register the questionnaire is designed such that a 'yes' answer reflects "essential elements of the renewal of Catholic identity called for by Pope John Paul II's 1990 apostolic constitution on higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (Out of the Heart of the Church), its 2000 'Application to the United States,' canon law and other relevant Church documents."
Here are CDU's responses to the 10 questions:
- Did the president make the public profession of faith and take the oath of fidelity? Yes
- Is the majority of the board of trustees Catholic? Yes
- Is the majority of the faculty Catholic? Yes
- Do you publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum? Yes*
- Did all Catholic theology professors take the oath of fidelity? Yes*
- Do you provide daily Mass and posted times (at least weekly) for individual confession? NA**
- Do you exclude advocates of abortion, euthanasia or cloning as commencement speakers or recipients of honorary degrees? Yes
- Do you exclude sponsoring pro-abortion campus groups? Yes
- Do you exclude coed dorms? NA**
- Do your student health services exclude referrals to abortion businesses? NA**
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