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Article: THIS TOO SHALL PASS : Why Ex corde's mandate won't last.
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- Commonweal
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- December 21, 2001
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In the guidelines for the implementation of Ex corde ecclesiae adopted by the bishops last June, the mandatum, or mandate, theologians must seek from their local bishop is said to be "an acknowledgment by church authority that a Catholic professor of a theological discipline is teaching within the full communion of the Catholic church." It is not, the guidelines go on, "an appointment, authorization, delegation, or approbation of one's teaching by church authorities." The mandate requires the professor to "teach authentic Catholic doctrine and to refrain from putting forth as Catholic teaching anything contrary to the church's magisterium."
The mandate is ...